Spirals in Nature and Art: A Study of Spiral Formations Based on the Manuscripts of Leonardo Da Vinci, with Special Reference to the Architecture of the Open Staircase at Blois, in Touraine, Now for the First Time Shown to be from His Designs

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J. Murray, 1903 - 200 Seiten
 

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Seite 73 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Seite 145 - Thus there are two Books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of GOD, another of His servant Nature, that universal and publick Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all : those that never saw him in the one, have discover'd Him in the other.
Seite 188 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the Stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward ; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival.
Seite 21 - Ich, Ebenbild der Gottheit, das sich schon Ganz nah gedünkt dem Spiegel ewger Wahrheit, Sein selbst genoß in Himmelsglanz und Klarheit Und abgestreift den Erdensohn, Ich, mehr als Cherub, dessen freie Kraft Schon durch die Adern der Natur zu fließen Und, schaffend, Götterleben zu genießen Sich ahnungsvoll vermaß, wie muß ich's büßen! Ein Donnerwort hat mich hinweggerafft. Nicht darf ich dir zu gleichen mich vermessen! Hab ich die Kraft, dich anzuziehn, besessen, So hatt ich dich zu halten...
Seite 8 - To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Seite 18 - Ihr Instrumente freilich spottet mein, Mit Rad und Kämmen, Walz und Bügel: Ich stand am Tor, ihr solltet Schlüssel sein; Zwar euer Bart ist kraus, doch hebt ihr nicht die Riegel. Geheimnisvoll am lichten Tag Läßt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben.
Seite 26 - ... into his Acts, and deliberate research into his Creatures, return the duty of a devout and learned admiration. Therefore, Search while thou wilt, and let thy reason go To ransome truth even to th...
Seite 93 - SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.
Seite 1 - Der Geist der Medizin ist leicht zu fassen; Ihr durchstudiert die groß' und kleine Welt, Um es am Ende gehn zu lassen, Wie's Gott gefällt.
Seite 188 - ... before the fair flowers were seen, or ever the moveable powers were established, before the innumerable multitude of angels were gathered together, or ever the heights of the air...

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