Agricola, Georgius
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De re metallica
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1912/1950
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thick, and nineteen feet and a palm long; these are placed three feet distant
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recesses are cut in the back of it two feet high, one foot wide, and a palm deep,
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and in these recesses, as it were in mortises, are placed one end of each of
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the beams. </
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>Into these ends are mortised the bottoms of just as many posts;
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these posts are twenty-four feet high, three palms wide and thick, and from
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the tops of the posts the same number of rafters stretch downward to the
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ends of the beams superimposed on the first wall; the upper ends of the
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rafters are mortised into the posts and the lower ends are mortised into the
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ends of the beams laid on the first wall; the rafters support the roof,
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which consists of burnt tiles. </
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separate timber, which is a cross-beam, and is joined to its post. </
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close together are affixed to the posts above the furnaces; these planks are
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about two digits thick and a palm wide, and they, together with the wicker
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work interposed between the timbers, are covered with lute so that there may
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be no risk of fire to the timbers and wicker-work. </
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is constructed the back part of the works, which contains the bellows, their
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frames, the mechanism for compressing the bellows, and the instrument for
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distending them, of all of which I will speak hereafter.</
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the fourth. </
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>Both are nine feet high, but of the same length and thickness as
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the other two, the fourth being nine feet distant from the third; the
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third is twenty-one and a half feet from the second. </
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twelve feet from the second wall, four posts seven and a half feet high, a cubit
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wide and thick, are set upon rock laid underneath. </
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posts the roof beam is mortised; this roof beam is two feet and as many
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palms longer than the distance between the second and the fifth transverse
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walls, in order that its ends may rest on the transverse walls. </
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not be so long a beam at hand, two are substituted for it. </
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the long beam is as above, and as the posts are equidistant, it is necessary
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that the posts should be a distance of nine feet, one palm, two and two-fifths
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digits from each other, and the end ones this distance from the transverse
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walls. </
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twelve secondary beams twenty-four feet long, one foot wide, three palms
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thick, and distant from each other three feet, one palm, and two digits. </
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these secondary beams, where they rest on the longitudinal beams, are mortised
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the ends of the same number of rafters as there are posts which stand on the
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second wall. </
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but are two feet away from them, that through this opening, which is like
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the open part of a forge, the furnaces can emit their fumes. </
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the rafters should not fall down, they are supported partly by iron rods,
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which extend from each rafter to the opposite post, and partly supported
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by a few tie-beams, which in the same manner extend from some rafters to
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the posts opposite, and give them stability. </
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to the rafters which face the posts, a number of boards, about two digits thick
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and a palm wide, are fixed at a distance of a palm from each other, and are </
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