The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 74
, inthe graduated sizes andlengths of the palm andthe toes, and in the suc-cessively decreasinglength of the palm andthe joints of the fingers,so that in closing thehand the fingers describenatural spirals (Illustra-tions 37, 38). Finally,the limbs radiate as itwere from the trunk, the fingers from… … A CCMEAECCN £BTWIf*J CHOTTOSCAMEMttLE, AaXUMN lEOMTHB ORTHENQN, AND THB. HUMAN JlOOEi-- THEBODILYTEMPLE 67 column like the veins of a leaf from its midrib (Illustration 39).The relation of these laws of beauty to the art of architecture has been shown already. They are reiterated here only to show…
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