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Examples of Methods of Drawing Geometrical Arabesque Patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

E. Hanbury Hankin
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Among the complicated rectilinear patterns employed in Saracenic art there is a group which may be described as “geometrical arabesques,” drawn by a curious method which may be of interest to mathematicians.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 12 , Issue 176 , May 1925 , pp. 370 - 373
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1925

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* An account of my discovery of this method, by finding some of the original construction lines, was published in a paper “On some Discoveries of the Methods of Design employed in Mahomedan Art” in the Journal of the Society of Arts, 1905, vol. liii. p. 461. A more detailed account is on the point of publication in the Memoirs of the Archaeological Department of the Government of India.