Proportion, or, The geometric principle of beauty, analysed (1843)
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798-1866 · Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and Sons · leaf 41
GEOMETRIC PRINCIPLE OF BEAUTY ANALYSED. 25 ornamental design in producing the volute. It is a curved line, receding gradually from a focus or centre, figure 19. Its centre may be a point, a circular figure, … another line, a volute. There are various other curved lines, which, although inapplicable in the arts of design, have been reckoned of much importance in science. They are the cycloid, the parabola, the hyperbola, and others. But all these I look upon as compounds. For instance, the cycloid is the…
Proportion (Art)
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