. Mathematical recreations and essays. Mathematical recreations; Geometry; Bees; Cryptography; Ciphers; String figures; Magic squares. 186 UNICURSAL PROBLEMS [CH. IX cathedrals at Lucca, Aix in Provence, and Poitiers; and on the floors of the churches of Santa Maria in Trastevere at Kome, San Vitale at Ravenna, Notre Dame at St Omer, and the cathedral at Chartres. It is possible that they were used to represent the journey through life as a kind of pilgrim's progress. In England these mazes were usually, perhaps always, cut in the turf adjacent to some religious house or hermitage: and there a
. Mathematical recreations and essays. Mathematical recreations; Geometry; Bees; Cryptography; Ciphers; String figures; Magic squares. 186 UNICURSAL PROBLEMS [CH. IX cathedrals at Lucca, Aix in Provence, and Poitiers; and on the floors of the churches of Santa Maria in Trastevere at Kome, San Vitale at Ravenna, Notre Dame at St Omer, and the cathedral at Chartres. It is possible that they were used to represent the journey through life as a kind of pilgrim's progress. In England these mazes were usually, perhaps always, cut in the turf adjacent to some religious house or hermitage: and there are some slight reasons for thinking that, when traversed as a religious exercise, a pater or ave had to be repeated at every turning. After the Renaissance, such labyrinths were frequently termed Troy-Towns or Julian's Bowers. Some of the best specimens, which are still extant, or were so until recently, are those at Rockliff Marshes, Cumberland; Asenby, Yorkshire; Alkborough, Lincolnshire; Wing, Rutlandshire; Boughton-Green, Northamptonshire; Comberton, Cambridge- shire; Saffron Walden, Essex; and Chilcombe, near Maze at Hampton Codet. The modern maze seems to have been introduced—probably from Italy—during the Renaissance, and many of the palaces and large houses built in England during the Tudor and the Stuart periods had labyrinths attached to them. Those adjoining the royal palaces at Southwark, Greenwich, and Hampton Court were well known from their vicinity to the capital. The last of these was designed by London and Wise in 1690, for William III, who had a fancy for such conceits: a plan of it is given in various guide-books. For the majority of the sight-seers who enter, it is sufficiently. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 185
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