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An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 984

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Kg. I05f AliCU OF SErllllCS SEVBBU3, AT KOXX. cuAi. ir. PRINCIPLES OF PROPORTION. 9G3 occupy f>ni-hi(f the width, and the piers the other : where the diagonals of the figurecross is the centre, fVoiii wliioh the principal arcli is struck. The Arch of Tnijan at Rfu^ventiim. — Circle struck from… … Fij. I055. ARCH OF TRAJAN AT BENBVENTUM. In the foregoing examples, we have attempted to show that the beauty which beloiig.sto form in arciiitecture rests upon one principle based on the laws of nature, and that thefist element in a good design is the proportion of the parts as well as the whole:…

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