Quote#Truth
The true Mathematical and Mechanical Form of all manner of Arches for…
Quote byRobert Hooke · 1635–1703
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Tr: As hangs the flexible line, so but inverted will stand the rigid arch..
English (original)
The true Mathematical and Mechanical Form of all manner of Arches for building with the true butment necessary to each of them, a Problem which no Architectonick Writer hath ever yet attempted, much less perform'd. ...Ut pendet continaum flexile, sic stabit contiguum rigidum, which is the Linea Catenaria.
— Robert Hooke
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