The power of form applied to geometric tracery : one hundred designs and their foundations resulting from one diagram (1851)
Billings, Robert William, 1813-1874 · Edinburgh ; London Published by the author by William Blackwood and Sons · leaf 18
cient 3 but the readerwho wishes to investig-ate this matter further will find it fullytreated of in the 7th chapter of the fifth book of Vitruvius. To those who have the knowledge of architectural detail^our diag-rams and their results need no particular explanations^but to the uninitiated it may… … for placing the expression of moulding-s upon it. So 16 a m soon then as the result appears this foundation line isremoved. We give the sections of moulding-s applicableto our designs^ for all the varieties will apply correctlyas outlines^ althoug-h the light and shade^ from thevariety of contour^…
Decoration and ornament · Geometrical drawing
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