Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain : Volume 3 & 4 (1886)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 137
pt when he was imitating an Ionian one. You are to draw a horizontal line through the point in 132 FORS GLAVIGERA. the centre of this figure. Then measure the breadth of thesix coils on each side, counting from the centre backwardsand forwards. Then draw a vertical line through centre, and… … The difficulty is to draw it so that there shall not be thesmallest portion of it which is not approaching the innercurve, and narrowing the intermediate space. And you willfind no trick of compasses will draw it. Choose any numberof centres you like, and still I defy you to draw the…
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