Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 261
particular explanation. He has found, however,many analogous cases of optical illusions in medieval buildings. 141 THE TRANSITION of the English, they seldom erected cathedrals of much over350 feet in length. It therefore is not unreasonable to supposethat the axis was deviated in order to overcome… … III. 216a. — Diagram of the Deviated Axis figure, for a man standing at x, the equal divisions a, b, c, d,will be projected in such small angles that the perspective willmuch diminish the apparent length of the choir. If, however,the axis be deviated, as in the second figure, the angles of…
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