[The Times: Search: "Wandsworth Common"].
[BNA: Buckmaster Battersea 1920]
[BNA: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1920]
[London Evening Standard: Buckmaster Wandsworth 1920]
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1910.
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Among other things noticeable on the face of the commons are a number of geometrical patterns formed with great accuracy. The County Council is an educative body. It has made this plain to the mind of the most indifferent ratepayer. A straight line is a line drawn without deviation between two points. Old Euclid found that out, but be did not demonstrate it as effectively as the County Council has done. Euclid was content to trace his lines with his finger tip in the sand, a sketchy method and one that could not have been absolutely accurate.
The London County Council's straight lines are about 50 yards long. 'They are drawn with whitewash and they improve on Euclid in a very important respect. A line, said Euclid, who knew no better, is length without breadth. The whitewashed lines on the commons in Battersea have a breadth of at least four inches. Circles and triangles are marked out with equal boldness. But far as we can judge, they are mathematically correct. No doubt they serve their purpose, which is to train the eye of the citizen and to teach him to view County Council proceedings in perspective.
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