 ... told him grammar was a book, algebra was a book, geometry another book, geography, chemistry, physics, still others: they never told him, never permitted him, to guess for himself how these things were actually intense symbols, complex ratios, representing...  Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects - Page 128by American Institute of Architects - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Louis H. Sullivan - Architecture - 1979 - 260 pages
...actually intense symbols, complex ratios, representing man's relation to Nature and his fellow man; they never told him that his mathematics, etc. etc.,...certain-shaped buildings, that the Goths built certain-shaped buildings, and that other peoples built other buildings of still other shapes. He knows, moreover,... | |
 | Louis Sullivan - Architecture - 1988 - 292 pages
...actually intense symbols, complex ratios, representing man's relation to Nature and his fellow man; they never told him that his mathematics, etc. etc.,...certain-shaped buildings, that the Goths built certain-shaped buildings, and that other peoples built other buildings of still other shapes. He knows, moreover,... | |
 | Hugh Morrison - Architecture - 1998 - 410 pages
...his fellowman; they never told him that his mathematics, his geography, his chemistry and physics, came into being in response to a desire in the human...certain-shaped buildings, that the Goths built certain-shaped buildings, and that other peoples built other buildings of still other shapes. He knows, moreover,... | |
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