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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 316

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e, Fig. LX. (If the reader will be at the pains to trans-fer the salvia leaf line with tracing paper, he will find it accu-rately used in this figure.) Then I merely add an outer circularline to represent the outer swell of the roll against which thespur is set, and I put another such spur to the… … Fig. LX. In those shafts the quadrant a b, or the upper edge of the lowerroll, is 2 feet If inches round, and the base of the spur d e, is10 inches ; the line d e being therefore to a b as 10 to 26f. InFig. LX. it is as 10 to 24, the measurement being easier andthe type somewhat more generally…

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