Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 93
ed the multifarious, ever varying, and com-plex forms, the products of the forces and condi-tions of nature, or the necessitous inventivenessof art, just as we may take the square and thecircle to be the parents of linear and geometricdesign. The cube and the sphere, the ellipse, the cone,and the… … ELEMENTARY FORMS: PYRAMID, SPHERE, CUBE, HEXAGON, CONE. bodies upon a plane surface. Such forms beingmore simple and regular than any natural forms,they are supposed to reduce the problem of draw-
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