Hannay, David, 1853-1934 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 34
the fact that a picture of a ship on a coin orseal would tend to conform to the circular shape of themetal it was stamped on. Ancient artists were indifferentto proportion, or had other ideas than ours as to how pro-portion was to be indicated, and what elements of the pictureought to be prominent.… … EGYPTIAN SHIP. at bow and stern to serve as fore and after castles. Putthese vessels in the water, make their length take a pro-portion to their height which will allow them to possess areasonable margin of stability, remove the platforms frombow and stern, and you have the ships which sailed for…
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