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Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888

Note 1 — ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.1

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Delivered before the Society of Arts, London, December 13, 1887. From the Journal of the Society.

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A groin is the edge line formed by the meeting and intersection of any two arched surfaces. When this edge line is covered and emphasized by a band of moulded stones forming an arch, as it were, on this edge, this is called a groin rib.

[3]

The "D" seems to have been accidentally omitted in this diagram; it is of course the fourth angle of the plan.

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This was illustrated by diagrams on the wall at the delivery of the lecture.

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