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THE modern architect is beginning to perceive that he has allowed the engineer to cover the ground with monstrosities because his immediate predecessors considered that any scientific knowledge would spoil the artistic faculty, regardless of the great architects of the past, Sir Christopher Wren, Leonardo da Vinci, and the designers of our cathedrals.
The Mechanics of Architecture.
By E. Wyndham Tarn (Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1892.)
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G. The Mechanics of Architecture. Nature 48, 515 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048515b0
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