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 188
s ; because the eye is capable of surveying more inbreadth than in height; but it is also capable of seeing muchfarther below its axis than above it, as shewn by the followingprofile [fig. 44]. From hence it appears, that the projec-tion of the forehead and eyebrow causes great difference be-twixt… … Doubtless these angles may vary in different individuals, fromvarious causes, such as the prominency of the eye, the habitor usual position of the head, &c. yet the upper angle a bwill seldom be greater than one half of the lower angle a c ;and 1 have ascertained, with some precision, that I…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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