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 20
han that of our firstessay^ where^ as we have just stated^ the circles were discon-nected^ and to this circumstance may be traced the orig-inof the present series. As in the first series^ the secondaryfoundation of design in combination with four circles^ wasnecessarily the square^ or the octagon^… … 18 every g-eometrical figure numbering- upward will be found^upon the most cursory trial^ to contribute its quota to thismost easily accessible field of design^ of this inexhaustiblemine of linear development. The truth of this g-eneral statement cannot be doubted; butof all g-eometric forms^ the…
Decoration and ornament · Geometrical drawing
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