[3] Diogenes Laërtius’s “Lives of the Philosophers,” literally translated. Bohn: London.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Rose’s “Biographical Dictionary.”
[6] Professor Laycock, now of the University of Edinburgh.
[7] “The Geometric Beauty of the Human Figure Defined,” &c.
[8] Longman and Co., London.
[9] See [Appendix].
[10] “The Orthographic Beauty of the Parthenon,” &c., and “The Harmonic Law of Nature applied to Architectural Design.”
[11] For further details, see “Harmonic Law of Nature,” &c.
[12] 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.