The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of the late Humphry Repton, esq., being his entire works on these subjects : ...with historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and copious alphabetical index (1840)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman · leaf 194
. This I shallfarther explain by the following lines [fig. 48]. The spectator at a, in looking on the upper water, willsee only sky; because the angle of incidence b, and that of THEORY AND PRACTICE, &c. 153 reflection c being equal, the latter passes over the top of thetrees d, on lower… … There are other circumstances belonging to reflection onthe surface of water, which deserve attention, and of whichthe landscape gardener should avail himself in the exercise ofhis art. Water in motion, whether agitated by wind or by itsnatural current, produces little or no reflection; but in…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
