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The power of form applied to geometric tracery : one hundred designs and their foundations resulting from one diagram (1851)

Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · W. Blackwood and Sons · leaf 23

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etric radiation of the cells of the sunflower.They are only equalled in geometric perfection by the hex-agonal cell of that most industrious insect architect the bee. The leafy origin of Tracery is undoubted, and is proved bythe terms of its own detail, for what are its projecting orna-ments or… … 21

Decoration and ornament · Geometry in art · Geometry in architecture · Architectural design · Form (aesthetics) · Geometrical drawing

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