The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 82
T- PER ORIHOGRAPHIAMAC SCAENOGRAPH 1AM PERDVCERE OMNES QVASCVNOVSE UNEAS.NOMSOLVM AD CIRCIHI CTNTRVM-i SE1> CyAE ATRJGONO FT CjyADBATO AVT ALIO QVOVISMODOPERVENIVNTPOSSINT SWM HABERE RESPONSVM -t TVM PER EVRYTHMIAM PROPOR.^TIONATAM QVRNTVM En AM* SYMMETRIAE QVANTIIATEM ORDINARIAM AC… … VITHE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY ALTHOUGH architecture is based primarily upon geometry, it is pos-sible to express all spatial relations numerically, for arithmetic, andnot geometry, is the universal science of quantity. The relation ofmasses one to another—of voids to solids, and of heights and lengths…
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