Author: R. Guastavino

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780265593165

Excerpt from Essay on the Theory and History of Cohesive Construction: Applied Especially to the Timbrel Vault, Read Before the Society of Arts, Massachusets Institute of Technology, Boston It was in October, 1871, when I made my acquaintance with this estate, which is four miles from the railroad station -of Alhama, Aragon, a noted hot-spring resort. Here, in that Monasterio de Piedra, I saw a grotto of immense grandeur, one of the most sub lime and extraordinary works of nature. Imagine Trinity Church, Boston, covered by an immense natural vault, supported by walls of the same nature, with gigantic stalactites of all kinds of forms and dimensions, like great chandeliers, hanging from above; the floor a lake, receiving the whole light through an immense ventinel or opening, like a rosette window in a cathedral, covered by the fall of the full mass of water of the river Jalon, its builder, passes over the vault and precipitated more than two hundred feet, taking the form in its fall of a horse's tail, which is the source of its name, Cola de Caballo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.