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" Beauty is a harmony of objects, begetting pleasure by the eye. There are two causes of beauty, natural and customary. Natural is from GEOMETRY, consisting in uniformity (that is, equality) and proportion. Customary beauty is begotten by the use of our... "
The Geometrical Companion, in which the Elements of Abstract Geometry are ... - Page 120
by George Darley - 1828 - 169 pages
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 8

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1828 - 474 pages
...and in this respect, his theory and practice went hand in hand. In his " Parentalia," page 3.51, he says, " There are natural causes of beauty ; beauty is a harmony of objects, begetting pleasure to the eye : there are two causes of beauty — natural and customary. Natural is from geometry, consisting...
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Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect

Lawrence Weaver - Architects - 1923 - 236 pages
...than traditional elements in design. He develops the idea in his first Tract printed in Parentalia : " Beauty is a Harmony of Objects, begetting Pleasure...Beauty — natural and customary. Natural is from THEORIES OF BEAUTY 151 Geometry, consisting in Uniformity (that is Equality) and Proportion. Customary...
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Japanese and Americans: Cultural Parallels and Paradoxes

Charles Grinnell Cleaver - History - 1976 - 314 pages
...Christopher Wren, one of a number of great English architects who influenced the early Americans, wrote, "There are natural Causes of Beauty. Beauty is a Harmony...Natural is from Geometry, consisting in Uniformity . . . and Proportion."3 The simple wooden structures of the seventeenth-century colonists made no such...
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Environmentalism: Critical Concepts, Volume 4

David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - Nature - 2003 - 452 pages
...of natural ideal which the architect. and stage designer. Christopher Wren espoused when he wrote: There are two causes of Beauty -natural and customary....Natural is from Geometry. consisting in Uniformity ... Geometrical Figures are naturally more beautiful than any other irregular: in this all consent....
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Der Landschaftsgarten als Lebensmodell: zur Symbolik der "Gartenrevolution ...

Ana-Stanca Tabarasi - Gardens - 2007 - 516 pages
...Prinzipien Shaftesbury 1712 in seinem Letter conceming the Art and Science of Design kritisieren sollte) : Beauty is a Harmony of Objects, begetting Pleasure...Geometry, consisting in Uniformity (that is Equality). [...] Always the true test is natural or geometrical Beauty. Geometrical Figures are naturally more...
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