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Identifier: 2encyclopaediaof00gwiluoft (find matches)
Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
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Fig. 1283. ST. OrEN AT BOUEN. Rose Window of the South Transept of the Cathedral at Rouen is 23 feet in diameter,measured to the centre of the large bead, wliich comprises the figure. A rortiou onlj of CUAP. IV. PRINCIPLES OF PROPORTION. 1033 this beautiful example is given, for the pur))ose of exhibiting ihe principle upon which it isset out: it will be evident that the nucleus of the tlesign is composed of two cijulhUtraltriangles, and the sides of each continued, constitute the alternate divisions.
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ROUEN CATHEURAL ! SOUTH TBANSBFT. Tlie internal hexagon has its parallel sides prolonged, to mark the position of the fourdivisions that have their pointed heads attached to the small circle, which forms the eye ofthe pattern; and the length of these prolonged lines is limited to the extent of tlie sides ofan ecjuilatcral triangle, which is again divided regularly, the triangular spaces betweenbeing filled in with trefoils. The small mullions are in width 2.; inches, the next size3 inches, and those which mark out the figure and have a bead for their termination are4^ inches: another bead and bold projecting label, or rim, circumscribe the whole rose window,the hollow around which is enriched with a curved leaf. On each side of the internalhexagon an equilateral triangle is constructed, around which a circle is struck, unitingelegantly \vith the next, aud forming the sis turns which characterise the fiUuig in of 1034 PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE. Book III. circles at tliis pcrioil ; tlics

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