Stone: Ancient Craft to Modern Mastery
Stone
by Richard Rhodes
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1797230085 | 350 pages | True EPUB | 196.28 MB
by Richard Rhodes
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1797230085 | 350 pages | True EPUB | 196.28 MB
In this perceptive and illustrative look at the expressive and practical use of stone throughout history, Richard Rhodes unlocks the underlying principles of this ancient material—and explains the closely guarded "Sacred Rules" of the Freemasons guild for the first time ever.
The relationship between mankind and stone is elemental and deeply ingrained in us all. Stone, after all, has been the primary building material for more than five thousand years of human history, and it continues to record our triumphs and failures. In this searching history, Rhodes—a sculptor, stonemason, and scholar of stonework—explores how stone is best used today and throughout history.
Stone presents the closely kept "Sacred Rules" developed over centuries by the medieval Freemason guild, previously available only to the initiated. Here, the rules are explained through historical examples and photographs. In these times of rapid development and…
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