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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 467

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- ; thus we haveinfinity multiplied into infinity to express the number of pos-sible chamfers of this species, which are peculiarly Italianchamfers ; together with another singly infinite group of thestraight chamfers, a b, ef, &c., of which the one formed by … the line a b, passing through the centre of the circle, is theuniversal early Gothic chamfer of Venice. Again. Either on the line A C, or on any other lines A / orA VI, radiating from A, any nuu:iber of centres may be taken,from which, with auy radii not greater than the distance be-tween such…

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