As the law of work is to use the least pains possible, you clear it only just as far back as you need, and then, for the sake of order and finish, you give the space a geometrical outline.
The employment of large masses is sure to lead to vulgar exhibitions of geometrical arrangement,[30] and to draw away the attention from the sculpture.
The choir, one of the most beautiful in England, is Early or Geometrical Decorated in the general effect.
Exeter Cathedral, though comparatively small and unimposing, is, in virtue of its details, one of the most admirable examples in England of the Geometrical Decorated style.
Assyro-Babylonians excelled in a knowledge of mathematics; tables of squares and cubes and geometrical figures have been found at Senkereh, and the plan of an estate at Babylon, 118.
Tables of squares and cubes found at Larsa, also geometrical figures used for augury; the mathematical unit, and mode of expression, 132-3.
Tables of squares and cubes have been found at Senkereh, the ancient Larsa, and a series of geometrical figures used for augural purposes presupposes a sort of Babylonian Euclid.
Then is also the time for the child to see some printed textiles in which the pattern is geometrical like his stick printing.
The Oriental work is characterized by very small individual ties and the arrangement of many of these into some geometrical or pictorial pattern.
On these shapes the cloth may be folded in different ways, giving an element of geometrical symmetry, which, however, is always softened in the dye-bath as the color makes its little incursions into the tied spots.
Geometrical geodesy, which was based on astronomical-geodetic methods, could give information only concerning the external form of the figure of the earth.
Bessel demonstrated theoretically that if the pendulum were symmetrical with respect to its geometrical center, if the times of swing about each axis were the same, the effects of buoyancy and of air set in motion would be eliminated.
By deliberately excluding curved lines (whose implied sensuality would be at odds with Zen ideals of austerity) in the partitioning of space, the house achieves a geometrical formality both elegant and pure.
The invention of the analytic method in mathematics is ascribed to him, as well as the solution of many geometrical and mechanical problems.
Here we have the necessity which is indispensable to all geometrical demonstration: it is a necessity founded in our human organ, which cannot admit or conceive a space, unless as preconforming to these original forms or schematisms.
This one distinction, as applied to space, for ever secures (what nothing else can secure or explain) the cogency of geometrical evidence.
It is moresque in style, but small in structural forms, smaller still in geometrical ornament, and without breadth or much harmony of colour schemes.
The scroll-work inlay is commonly simple and graceful, consisting of floral or geometrical motives, or arabesques.
What in the first instance recommends the geometrical method to Spinoza is, not only its apparent exactness and the necessity of its sequence, but, so to speak, its disinterestedness.
Taken from the palace at Nineveh is a large marble slab carved in low relief with a geometrical pattern surrounded by a border of lotus flowers and buds, evidently a copy of an Assyrian floor cover or rug about 705 B.
Many of the earlier examples were carved in panels of geometrical tracery, but their characteristic ornament was either intarsia or gesso, or a mixture of the two.
For the wall, as measured by me, is 2U250 geometrical pasos in circumference, at five tercias for each paso, which makes three quarters of a legua.
Geometrical and physical solidity, as well as motion, imply extension.
But, by the bye, how well this agrees with what they likewise assert of abstract ideas being the object of geometrical demonstration I leave to be considered.
Metaphysiques as capable of certainty as ethiques, but not so capable to be demonstrated in a geometrical way; because men see clearer & have not so many prejudices in ethiques.
Thus betwixt a line of 2 inches & a line of 5 inches a mean geometrical cannot be found, except the number of points contained in 2 inches multiply'd by ye number of points contained in 5 inches make a square number.
From which may, in some measure, be derived that peculiar evidence and clearness of geometrical demonstrations.
Our knowledge of the ether may be as absolute and exact as our knowledge of prakriti, working on physical as we work on geometrical axioms.
We are working on physical axioms exactly as we work on geometrical axioms.
In the one case we are dealing with a geometricalfigure of an exceedingly simple type, with which our experience is well acquainted, and presenting a very limited number of relations for us to contemplate.
What Locke evidently means is, that we cannot conceive of any geometrical figure which presents all the other properties of a triangle without also presenting the property in question.
To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.
Illustration 54] The first painter who deliberately rather than instinctively based his compositions on geometrical principles seems to have been Fra Bartolommeo, in his Last Judgment, in the church of St. Maria Nuova, in Florence.
Illustration 71] Nevertheless, when all is said, it is easy to exaggerate the importance of this matter of geometrical proportion.
The plans likewise of the world's famous buildings reduced to their simplest expression are discovered to resolve themselves into a few simple geometrical figures.
It is however in his masterpiece, The Last Supper, that he combines geometrical symmetry and precision with perfect naturalness and freedom in the grouping of individually interesting and dramatic figures.
Whenever sculpture suffered divorce from architecture the geometrical element became less prominent, doubtless because of all the arts architecture is the most clearly and closely related to geometry.
It is a demonstrable fact that certain geometrical intersections yield the important proportions of Greek architecture.
All the physical methods are self-limited, but the method of mind has no limits; it is even more than cumulative, and multiplies its capacities by geometrical progression.
Sir William declared that "the augmentation of the world's eating population in a geometrical ratio" is a proved fact.
Cabanas fortress; the passing cars made the familiar geometrical patterns with the cold bars of their lamps; they were wrapped in darkness; night had come.
Thus, then, do these simple geometrical forms characterize the simplest bodies in nature; and it appears that this first kind of beauty is peculiarly their own.
Circles and ellipses would also be among the figures with most facility and precision traced, and especially in cases of repeated tracing; but we are not at present considering figures in the proper geometrical sense of the term.
Symmetry of form, though implied in geometrical regularity, is not identical with it, and requires a separate consideration.
I shall at present consider those which do not return into themselves, so as to constitute the outlines of figures in the geometrical sense.
It may be treated under the heads of 1st, geometrical symmetry, or symmetry of form; 2d, of symmetry of position.
It may be said, that all this chiefly regards mere geometrical forms, not objects in nature.
This is made more probable by the existence of a specifically Islamic concentration on the astrolabe, and on its planetary companion instrument, the equatorium, as devices for mechanizing computation by use of geometrical analogues.
This is proved by his geometrical treatises, wherein I see nothing omitted, except what he judged to be beyond the scope of his work.
He was one of those who helped Dürer in his mathematical and geometrical studies; and he, like Pirkheimer, dedicated books to him.
The work, being founded on a sort of geometrical system, is unpolished and devoid of literary style; so it seems rather rugged.
It is jotted down on a thick piece of paper, on which there are also geometrical designs.
Malthus gave expression to this fact by saying that population had a tendency to increase in a geometrical progression, but the means of subsistence, even under the most favorable conditions, only in an arithmetical progression.
Adam Smith was of opinion, that higher wages enhanced the price of commodities in an arithmetical ratio, a higher rate of interest in a geometrical one (I, ch.
The ideas of substance, cause, and relation do not flow from geometrical ideas; if we regard them alone, we see an immense field extending into regions of unbounded space; but the coldness and silence of death reign there.
Geometrical truths are eternal, inasmuch as they are represented in the eternal reason; and this representation supposes an intrinsic and necessary truth in them, since the representation would otherwise be false.
Geometrical ideas, properly so called, as distinguished from sensible representations, are not simple ideas, since they necessarily involve the ideas of relation and number.
Even infinitesimal calculus, in a manner originating in geometrical considerations, has been emancipated from them and formed into a science perfectly independent of the idea of extension.
In the preceding chapters we have distinguished between pure ideas and sensible representations, and we seem to have sufficiently demonstrated the difference between them, although we limited ourselves to the geometrical order.
This superiority of non-geometrical over geometricalideas is very remarkable, since it shows that the sphere of intellectual activity expands in proportion as it rises above sensible intuition.
Geometrical ideas, or ideas relating to sensible intuitions, are not innate; since they are the acts of the understanding which operates upon materials provided by the sensibility.
Here we have to note the superiority of non-geometrical to geometrical ideas,--a superiority plainly visible in the two branches of mathematics, universal arithmetic and geometry.
The question now occurs, whether the understanding, in order to perceive the geometrical relations offered in sensible intuition, does or does not need some intermediate representations which bring it into contact with the sensible order?
The idea of the triangle is the same to the man born blind and to him who has sight; and the proof of this is that both, in their arguments and geometrical uses, develop it in precisely the same manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geometrical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
