be thought, interfere with thesevere rectangularity of the style, but actually increase itwhen seen from a near point of view. To explain this, wemust remember that the ocular images of objects are formedon the retina, which is not a plane but a spherical surface,and the most severely contrasted… … 5sw Ul ] OF ARCHITECTURE. 193 five, i. e., projection on a spherical surface of which the eye isthe centre. It is by no means a difficult subject, perhapseasier than ordinary perspective ; and the architect would dowell to consider (as the Greeks did) not only the elevation,and the effects in plane…
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