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The elements of perspective : arranged for the use of schools and intended to be read in connexion with the first three books of Euclid (1859)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : Smith, Elder · leaf 134

An illustration from The elements of perspective : arranged for the use of schools and intended to be read in connexion with the first three books of Euclid, 1859, leaf 134 — 112 PRACTICE AND OBSERVATIONS [App. I. D … Fig. 59. We may now proceed to an architectural example. Let ah, Fig. 60., be the vertical profile of the capital of a pillar, A b the semi-diameter of its head or abacus, and F d the semi-diameter of its shaft. Let the shaft be circular, and the abacus square, down to the level e. Join b d, e f,…

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