Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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Plate 18. The Circle, and its Subdivision. GEOMETRICAL MOTIVES.
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Gothic Tracery. Plate 19. 30 Gothic Tracery. — The EUipse. the quatrefoil (in the centre of fig. 2), the cinquefoil, &c. The projecting points are termed cusps, the voids between the cusps aretermed foils. Plate 19. Tracery. 1—11. Gothic tracery, for panels and windows. The figures givepartly the fundamental construction, partly the further deve-lopement. Thus figures 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 6 and 7, 8 and9, 10 and 11, belong together. The Ellipse. (Plate 20.) The Ellipse is a figure, whose radius of curvation is continuallychanging. It has the peculiar quality that, if any point on thecircumference be joined with the two foci, the sum of the two con-necting lines is invariable, and always equal to the longitudinal axis. The three-centred arch is an approximate construction to anelliptic curve. It is composed of a number of arcs, which is notpossible in the case of the ellipse. As regards beauty of line it cannever be a substitute for the Ellipse; but its easier construction has,not

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