Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 172
onals to two squares, F and E being midway between AH and AG. In the large square IM the lines ML and IK are each diagonals to two squares. The point T is the center of the vase at its base and J the middle of the side of the square IC. The curve touches FG at Q, HE at P, the point J, IK at O, LM… … Fig. 5. Dinos 13.205, Boston Museum. (Measured and drawn by L. D. Caskey.) matical. Curves were, apparently, drawn by tangents in this manner all through the Greek classical period. Hardly a vase, among the hundreds so far examined, fails to disclose this method of relating curve to angle, area and…
Design · Vases, Greek
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