Cylinder Quotes
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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
— As quoted in "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible" in The Watchtower (1 October 1980)
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
anaximander— As quoted in "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible" in The Watchtower (1 October 1980)
Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.
juan gris— Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of L'Esprit Nouveau # 5 (February 1921), pp. 533-534; trans. Douglas Cooper in Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris, His Life and Work (1947)
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in perspective.
Paul Ce zanne— 1904 Letter to E? mile Bernard,15 Apr.
