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A treatise of the 5 orders of columns in architecture, viz. toscan... wherein the proportions and characters of the members of their several pedestals,... are distinctly consider'd,... engraven on 6 folio pl. ... adorn'd with 24 borders,... and a like number of tail-pieces by John Sturt / written in French by Claude Perrault... ; made English by John James of Greenwich
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Cu. IX.

The Ordonance of the PatfcL

And these twelve, Minutes differ very . little from a Mean of thoseProportions found in the Antique, and!h' the WDr-rr; a's heprov'd hy the following Table, from which this mean Proportionmay he taken, as was done in the preceding Chapter, for the Di-minution of Columns. For adding the sum of the least Projectingwhich is forty, in the Corinthian of the Coliseum , to the greatest,which is forty-four, in the Arch of Titus , we stall find eighty-four,whose Half is the forty-two requird: And again, if we add the leastProjecture we find in the remaining Examples of the Table, whichis forty-one, in the Portico of the Pantheon, to the greatest, whichis forty-three in the Temple of Manly Fortune, we likewise find thefame Number of eighty-four Minutes.

The Table of the TrojeSiure of the Pases of Columns.

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Tuscan

Poric

! Ionic

Corinth.

Compos

The Portico of the fantheen

4 1

The 3 Columns of CampoVaccino

4 2

Pilasters of the Portico of the Pan.

i

43

The Baths .of Diocletian

42

43

Trajans Column

4 °

Palladia -

40

40

41

42

42

Scamoz,z,i , . -

4 °

42

4 1

40

4 1

VigwjLi

4 i

41

4 2

42

42

Serlio

42

44

4 i

40

41

The Temple of Manly Fortune

43

The Coliseum

40

40

40 .

The Temple of Bacchus

4 1

I Titus s Arch

44

Septimiuss Arch

i