Walker, William, b. 1821 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 142
f beauty, both in the individual * Princijiles and Practice of Art. 112 On Yariety. 113 and in the aggregate ? Witliout the one, we cannot havethe other. Were beauty always to take the same form andexpression, the eye and the mind would be fatigued by itsperpetual recurrence. But, as variety is… … Fig. 75. palpable manner, that variety is an indispensable consti-tuent of beauty, and that perfect beauty is constituted ofinfinite variety, thus :—^On cutting segments of the circleof different sizes, s s s s, we shall find that the curvatureof the arcs is precisely the same, whatever may be…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-192-110.webp)
