| Title: | Buttresses |
| Original Title: | Contre-forts |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 4 (1754), p. 134 |
| Author: | Jacques-François Blondel (biography) |
| Translator: | Caitlin Duffy [Drew University, French 348] |
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Architecture
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| Citation (MLA): | Blondel, Jacques-François. "Buttresses." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Caitlin Duffy. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.247>. Trans. of "Contre-forts," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4. Paris, 1754. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Blondel, Jacques-François. "Buttresses." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Caitlin Duffy. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.247 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Contre-forts," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 4:134 (Paris, 1754). |
BUTTRESSES are the masonry pillars made to support or hold up high walls or terraces that extend and could otherwise collapse. See Spur and Flying buttress.
These sorts of works are attached by arches at set intervals.
When one builds on the slope of a mountain, it is necessary to make buttresses or spurs that are well-attached to the wall that holds back the earth, spaced two toises apart from one another. [1]
1. One toise equaled six feet. See Units of Measurement in France before the French Revolution .