Note 12 — THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY AS APPLIED TO FORMS.
Reading edition
By a very simple machine, which I have lately invented, an ellipse of any given proportions, even to those of (¹⁄₆₄), which is the curve of the entases of the columns of the Parthenon (see Plate VII.), and of any length, from half an inch to fifty feet or upwards, may be easily and correctly described; the length and angle of the required ellipse being all that need be given.