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Mathematical recreations and essays (1914)

Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925 · London, Macmillan · leaf 207

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for thinking that, when traversedas a religious exercise, a jpater or ave had to be repeated atevery turning. After the Renaissance, such labyrinths werefrequently termed Troy-Towns or Julians Bowers. Some ofthe best specimens, which are still extant, or were so untilrecently, are those at Rockliff… … Maze at Hampton Court. The modern maze seems to have been introduced—probablyfrom Italy—during the Renaissance, and many of the palacesand large houses built in England during the Tudor and theStuart periods had labyrinths attached to them. Thoseadjoining the royal palaces at Southwark, Greenwich,…

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