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Plate The: Trapezium
Plate The: Trapezium
TheCircle, &c.
Gothic Tracer/. 27
Plate 17. The Rhojibus, and the Trapezium.
1 4. Subdivision of the Rhombus.
5 8.
Parallel Trapezium.
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10.
Symmetrical Trapezium.
The Circle, its Subdivision, and Intersections.
(Plate 18.)
The Circle is often used in ornamentation as a fundamental form.
No good result is produced (as a rule) by dividing it merely by
radii or other straight lines; and it is therefore usually divided by
means of curved lines or of a combination of arcs and straight lines.
By describing circles to cut each other: motives may be obtained, as
shown by figures 3 and
7,
the latter of which is the basis of a
Roman mosaic pavement found in Pompeii (Figure
17).
That circles which cut each-other form of themselves an effec-
tive patternis shown by the engine-turned ornament, which is pro-
duced by machinery and applied to the decoration of Watch-cases,
and to the plates from which Bank notes, Share certificates, &c. are
printed.
Ornamentation by means of arcs plays a conspicuous part in
Gothic tracery, which will be treated-of in the following chapter.
Plate 18. The Circle.
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12. Different divisions and intersections.
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