 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 358 pages
...angle which it made with the horizontal line ; and it was affirmed, that there was a regular series from birds to the mammalia. The gradation from the...some works of Grecian sculpture, as in the head of Apollo, and in the Medusa of Sisocles, is given by an angle which amounts to 100° *. A great number... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1833 - 366 pages
...line ; and it was affirmed, that there was a regular series from birds to the mammalia. The gradatioti from the dog to the monkey was said to be perfect,...some works of Grecian sculpture, as in the head of Apollo, and in the Medusa of Sisocles, is given by an angle which amounts to 100° *. A great number... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1836 - 444 pages
...approximating in figure to mankind, the facial angle contains exactly fifty degrees. Next to this is the head of the African Negro, which, as well as that of the Kalmuk, forms an angle of seventy degrees, while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans, contains... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 pages
...most closely to the human figure, the facial angle contains exactly fifty degrees. Next to this is the head of the African Negro, which, as well as that of the Kalmuc, forms an angle of seventy degrees, while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans contains eighty degrees. On this... | |
 | 1845 - 916 pages
...approximating in figure to mankind, the facial angle contains exactly 50 degrees. Iiiext to this is the head of the African negro, which, as well as" that of the Kalmuck, forms an angle of 70 degrees ; while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans, contains... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1845 - 748 pages
...approximating in figure to mankind, the facial angle contains exactly fifty degrees. Next to this is the head of the African Negro, which, as well as that of the Kalmuk, forms an angle of seventy degrees ; while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans contains... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...approximated nearest to man in figure, an angle of 50°. To this succeeds (longo sed proximus iutervallo) the head of the African negro, which, as well as that of the Calmuck, forms an angle of 70° ; while that of the European contains 80°. The Roman painters preferred... | |
 | Arthur comte de Gobineau, Josiah Clark Nott - 1856 - 528 pages
...figure to mankind, the facial angle contains exactly fifty degrees. Next to this is the head of an African negro, which, as well as that of the Kalmuc, forms an angle of seventy degrees ; while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans contains eighty degrees. On... | |
 | Joseph Arthur comte de Gobineau - 1856 - 568 pages
...figure to mankind, the facial angle contains exactly fifty degrees. Next to this is the head of an African negro, which, as well as that of the Kalmuc, forms an angle of seventy degrees ; while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans contains eighty degrees. On... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 856 pages
...most closely to the human figure, the facial angle contains exactly fifty degrees. Next to this is the head of the African negro, which, as well as that of the Kalmnc, forms an angle of seventy degrees, while the angle discovered in the heads of Europeans contains... | |
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On this difference of ten degrees in the facial angle the superior beauty of the European depends; while that high character of sublime beauty, which is so striking in some works of... 
