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Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)

Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 302

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l trees the angle of the lateral ribs of the leaves with their central spine, is approximately the same at which the branches leave their stem ; and thus a section of the tree would be like a magnified view of its own leaf, but for the force of gravity which is always at work on the branches. The… … Fig. 17 b. Fig. 33- tiful trees have a way of dividing themselves into double masses, something in this form (Fig. 41). If you re- member this, and the forms of minor radiation given in the tree-letter (Fig. 17 b) you will have a sort of handy general notion of the Law of Radiation, as trees illus-…

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