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The seven lamps of architecture (1907)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, G. Allen · leaf 154

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2^ Professor Willis was, I believe, the first modernwho observed and ascertained the lost structural prin-ciples of Gothic architecture. His book above referredto (§21) taught me all my grammar of central Gothic,but this grammar of the flamboyant I worked out formyself, and wrote it here, supposing… … J. Ruskia. B. P. Cuff THE LAMP OF TRUTH. IIQ junction, on the front of the shafts. The sectionsk, «,-taken respectively at the levels k, n, willexplain the hypothetical construction of thewhole. Fig. 7 is a base, or joint rather, (forpassages of this form occur again and again,on the shafts of…

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