NOR 
From es tena i 
of fix- 
various f 
tuario Chronologico de votis sities Imperatorum ae 
publifhed feveral pieces in chronology, 
of which the moft contiderable was entitled ‘ Poe ze Syro- 
8 ae oannem Harduin : 
i 
ength, in the year 1692, pope Inno- 
eent XII. urged cis fo ftrongly on the fubje&, that he did 
a deem it A aaa any longer to refift, and upon his arrival 
t Rome, his holinefs ema) appointed him fub-lbra- 
rian of the Vatican, This circumftance excited the jealoufy 
of his enemies, who endeavoured to undermine his reputa- 
A com- 
to make afullreport. So ftrongly did they {peak in rete 
of father Noris, that his holinefs eae appointed = 
counfellor to the Inquifition, and in 
the dignity 2. oo I 7° 
rian of al o ye v 
ae pope to apply himfelf to the enmacen 
of the calendar but he had made much progrefs in the 
e was racked with an incurable dropfy, 
vt aaaal prove ed poe in 1704, at the age of feventy-three. 
e ne of the moft learned men of his time, and was 
peculiarly eal informed in facred and profane hiftory. His 
genius was lively and penetrating ; his powers of memory 
frequently elega He was 
befides thofe 5 aoe aanoned, The 
been publifhed co al ely at Vacs 1729—32, in five 
volumes folio. 
NORMAL Li in Geometry, is uled bale a i aaa 
age PENDICULA Se : 
n Sea Lan a name given a” fhort 
wooden bar, thratt a one st ie holes of the ea in 
a merchant fhip, whereon to faften the cable. It is only 
ufed where there is oa little ftrain on the Sie as ina 
commodious ier rads when the fhip is well fheltered from 
the wind and ti 
cular line. 
NO 
t the inventors of this ftyle of building, as 
has been Sally ules 
we can ide’ of the ftyle of building 
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«A Differtation on ae Pafchal 
NOR 
erie an accidental circumftance than to any prevailing 
The plan of the firft Saxon churches confifted only of a 
fimple oblong extending in its longer dimenfion from ea 
to weft; but in after times the eaft end was converted into 
a femicircle: the north and fouth fides were each branched 
out with a wi 
aked or general 
face of the bui 
ancient examples were in jeeal lain 
Many difcordant opinions have been advanced concerning 
what really conftitutes Norman architeGture. 
The only material difference between Saxon and Norman 
architeCture appears in the magnitude of the i evaiaees of 
the latter sae a and the more frequent ufe of ftone. 
e Normans were not the inventors of the pointed arch, 
as feveral ian of that fpecies are to be met with prior 
rman era ma har ae to be ie A. D. 1066 
to 11 a from the cong to the death of Stephen. 
Normans greatly increafed the dimenfions of the 
churches. The ornaments formerly ufed in the Saxon arches 
were retained, and others were added of a much more ex- 
uberant kind. The foliage and other carvings were much 
more elaborate; however, their edifices ftill wanted the piers 
ments and pinnacles, as in thofe which afterwards were 
termed ees _ oin 
he ates i the ear rly een reigns were of 
ccnmate we in architecture ; they applied enc to 
the rebuilding of cathedral 
churches, and alfo the rebuild- 
eys. o le he 
which are undeubtedly Norman workman 
the feveral dates are afcertained ) 
either were architects themfelves, or under whofe aufpices 
architeture flourifhed, are Gundulph, bifhop of Rochetter, 
who flourifhed from A. D. 1077 to 1107; Mauritius, bifhop 
of London, who flourifhed trom 1086 to 1108; Roger 
m 1123 to 11473 Henry of Blois, een ef 
Winceter from 1129 to 11693; and Roger, archbifhop 
ew oO The 
works of ed ae may be een at Rochefter, Can- 
oe — and Peterborough. Mauritius of London built 
old St. Pauls cathedral ; 
dulph at Rochefter ;“ Alexander of Lincoln rebuilt his own 
cathedral; and Henry Blois, bifhop of Wee a moft 
Minent 
