Applied perspective, for architects and painters (1901)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 81
lustration, is not used in the con-struction. The construction shown in Fig. 60 is convenient for describing a series of circles orround arches in contact. Thus, the first arch being constructed, an intermediate diag-onal drawn through d and e finds the crown c of the second arch and the vertical… … 7y.6/ page 19, Fig. 21, for spacing a colonnade or otherseries of uniform objects. The symmetrical shape of the circle allows asquare to be circumscribed wiih its sides in anydirection, and (here is usually no obstacle to put-ting one side parallel to the pictuie plane. Theonly question is when the…
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