The effect of a heptagonal stem on an octagonal base or plinth is certainly odd. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
It was surrounded by the planetary statues, heptagonal at the bottom, and spherical. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
The final part of the instillation is a great heptagonal glass case in a darkened room. From Wordnik.com. ["There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..."] Reference
The inside of the cabinet door is inlaid with a heptagonal figure drawn from a single, infinitely recursive line. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Both figures are comprised of a single recursive line, suggesting that the selection of the heptagonal figure was deliberate. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
'This is a very thirst-quenching drink, sir,' said the little man, without looking down but with his fingers testing the coin's heptagonal shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
Included in this research are speculations about this heptagonal figure and why it might have proved a natural choice as ornament for the Urbino studiolo. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Regarding the visual pattern of the heptagonal figure at Urbino, it is worth considering Hugh of St. Victor's thoughts on the mnemonic potentials of geometry. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
The trouble was that there were so many different types of square wheelers; pentagonal wheels, hexagonal, heptagonal, octagonal, orthoganal, diagonal and pythagoral!. From Wordnik.com. [a fable, from uwebdev - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson] Reference
Beside the central image of the city in the east wall, to which we will return momentarily, the heptagonal figure offers a perpetual motion machine by which to contemplate the interconnection of worldly and divine wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Upon this commanding site, west of the Bowery, where Grand and Mulberry streets intersect, was erected a powerful irregular heptagonal redoubt, mounting eight nine-pounders, four three pounders, and six royal and cohorn mortars. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
I particularly liked the pair of coasters, intially the other coaster I made (above)has heptagonal symmetry and it was kind of an accident, the ones I made later (below) have hexagonal symmetry and actually fits as a regular pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Trial doilyage!] Reference
As we came closer, we realized that the quadrangular form included, at each of its corners, a heptagonal tower, five sides of which were visible on the outside-four of the eight sides, then, of the greater octagon producing four minor heptagons, which from the outside appeared as pentagons. From Wordnik.com. [The Name of the Rose]
The conical roofs of the heptagonal temples, the staircases, terraces, and ramparts were being carved by degrees upon the paleness of the dawn; and a girdle of white foam rocked around the Carthaginian peninsula, while the emerald sea appeared as if it were curdled in the freshness of the morning. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Gothic style; the heptagonal tower was erected in 1536. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
The little bloodstone table on which the heptagonal coffer stands was drawn to the centre of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
ABU DHABI - A heptagonal dome will be constructed at Abu Dhabi Corniche with a polygon symbolising each of the seven. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Rihanna rocks Abu Dhabi into 2010 as she performs in a scantily-clad outfit] Reference
ABU DHABI - A heptagonal dome will be constructed at Abu Dhabi Corniche with a polygon symbolising each of the seven emirates. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Beirut is back… And it's beautiful] Reference
The heptagonal tower had two entrances, one to the north, the other to the south, but was, unfortunately, getting smothered in sand again. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
A rather small flaring bowl with flat bottom, ornamented with oval depressions on the inner surface; the margin is distinctly and somewhat regularly heptagonal. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466] Reference
In the heptagonal version of the 4x400 relay, which featured only Ivy League teams, Penn finished second at 3: 16.14 - the best time posted by the squad all year. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Pennsylvanian] Reference
Some distance beyond the graveyard we came to a section of a tower, heptagonal in form, which had just been dug out to a depth of 4 feet by the natives of the village of Zaidan. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
In the middle of it was an heptagonal fountain of fine alabaster most artfully wrought, full of water, which was so clear that it might have passed for element in its purity and singleness. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
The fifty pence coin, one of the first new ones issued, is very familiar to the people of Britain since its introduction almost four decades ago, but still seems odd to the outsider with its heptagonal shape (below, left). From Wordnik.com. [Dark Roasted Blend] Reference
The stiff soil of these plains was here and there marked by very regular pentagonal, hexagonal, and heptagonal cracks, and, as these cracks retain the moisture of occasional rains better than the intervening space, they were fringed with young grass, which showed these mathematical figures very distinctly. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
“I saw it,” says the venerable faquir, “with my own eyes; it was of a heptagonal shape, and had the following inscription in verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
∗ n 2n − 0 n 3n − 1 n 4n − 2 n 2 2 = n2 2 2 Based on the pattern developing across the nth row, have your students determine what the general forms of the heptagonal, octagonal, decagonal, etc., numbers are. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
This was, of course, heptagonal. From Wordnik.com. [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference
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