Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Practical and Scientific Treatise on Calcareous Mortars and Cements, Artificial and Natural: Containing, Directions for Ascertaining the Qualities of the Different Ingredients, for Preparing Them for Use, and for Combining Them Together in the Most Advantageous Manner; With a Theoretical Investigation of Their Properties and Modes of Action
Tue art of composing calcareous cements was confined, till within the last few years, to the knowledge of a small number of facts, and to the observance of certain rules long since admitted into use without examination, on the authority of Vitruvius and the architects who followed him. But the rules were almost always found to be at fault, and the facts, for want of correlativeness, were of but little aid. Could we, for instance, manufacture good mortar in France.
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