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First principles of symmetrical beauty (1846)

Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798-1866 · Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 228

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haiTiiony be really, as I have endeavouredto prove, a natural and an inherent quality in geometry,they must be as safe a guide to the student in eitherarchitecture or ornamental design, where form is treatedin the abstract, as the visible works of nature are to thestudent in imitative art. That I…

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