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In architectural contexts ‘nautilus shell’ is more commonly used of the volute of Ionic capitals. That is not the way in which Ruskin is using it here. Compare the drawings in Notebook N p.29 with the spiral of chambers which make up a nautilus shell.
The nautilus shell is compared with the tracery of the top central window of the image below:
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