So the trip to St John the Divine included art and history and religion and even science. The cathedral was built in two different styles. The older, rear part has curved Romanesque arches and the newer, front part has the pointed arches, as depicted in my previous posts.
Now the cool thing is that you can use your hands to demonstrate the difference between the round tops and pointed tops and the stresses they produce. If you press your fingers together in a rounded arch and keep your elbows pointing down you’ll find the stress is felt around the wrists. This is why the walls have to thick to support rounded arches.
But, if you press your fingers together in a more pointed fashion, the stress point drops to closer to your elbows. This allows for thinner walls and those elegant ribs of the Gothic style. Arches. Science. Cool. And pretty.
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Here’s the church, and here’s the steeple. Open it up, and here’s all the people.
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