Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (1805)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ... · leaf 48
rate conside-rations; because the eye is capable of surveying more in breadththan in height; but it is also capable of seeing much farther belowits axis than above it, as shewn by the following profile. Fromhence it appears that the projection of the forehead and eye-brow causes great difference… … .-B ....•■ 28 ulxis cf Vision56 ■•••c 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. B. willseldom be greater than one half of the lower angle A. C. andI have…
