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Table of contents for Architectural theory (2605 words) |
 | Joshua Reynolds from Discourses on Architecture (1786) 119. |
| Gottfried Semper from Vorläufige Bemerkungen über bemalte Architectur und Plastik bei den Alten (1834) 135. |
| Gottfried Semper from Vorläufige Bemerkungen über bemalte Architectur und Plastik bei den Alten (1834) 139. |
| Whewell and Ruskin on Gothic (6658 words) |
| Architecture and Induction: Whewell and Ruskin on Gothic |
| Becher (4-8) briefly discusses the scientific nature of Whewell's architectural writings and their relationship to his views on other subjects; Schaffer (215-17) sketches the religious and political interests that these architectural writings were meant to serve. |
| For Ruskin, the "corruption" of Gothic architecture was connected to "the peculiar degradation of the Romanist superstition, and of public morality in consequence" (9:44). |
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