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“ Inventions, condemned by him. Secondly, Omnes dimmuuntur" & contrahuntur infenfibiliter, plus aut minus, secundum proportio-" nem suæ altitudinis , ab tertia partescapisuisursum : All are con-" traded or lessened insensibly, more or less, according to the Pro-" portion of their Altitude, from the third Part of their Scape, or“ lower Part, upward. Which Gidielm. Philander, (one of the best“ Interpreters of Vitruvius) from the exact Dimensions of sundry an-“ tique Remains surveyed by himself, prescribes, tanquam venuftiffi*" mam diminutionem , as the most comely and graceful Diminution," and most resembling the taper Growth of Pine-trees, from whose" Pattern the Figure of all Columns was first taken. Thirdly, Om~" nes suos habent Jlylobatas, altitudine tertiæ partis totius Column£■>“ comprehensa bafi & capitulo : All have their Pedestals, of the Height" of the third Part of the whole Column, from the Base to the Head.“ The Properties of the Tuscan Order (to omit others of less Impor-" tance) consist principally in two Things, to. the Proportion of<c the Longitude of the Pillar it self, and the Intercolumnium, or" Distance betwixt Pillar and Pillar. The Height, or Length of the" Pillar, ought to be Sex diametrorum crajsjsmæ partis inferioris ip-" fius scapi , six Diameters of its Thickness in the biggest Part a lit-££ tie above the Bottom. For Vitruvius\lib. z. cap. i.) accounts the" Length of a Man's Foot to be the sixth Part of his whole Body" in ordinary Dimensions: and Man, according to ‘Protagoras, is" To csVaWar ’pyn/juvtoov fjdrr^sv j of all exact Symmetry, the Pro-" totype, or first Exemplar* and the Intercolumnium^ or Interval" betwixt the Pillars, is required to be circiter quatuor illius c Diame~" trorum, of about four Diameters. Now, these Qualifications of" the Tuscan Order being thus set down, on one fide of the Paral-" lei 5 let us turn our Eyes xvpon Stone-Heng, and fee what Analogyis to be found therein, to make up the other. i. A tStone*Heng" very few, or none at all of the upright Stones, or Columns, are" round; no, nor in any Degree related to that Figure; but brOad" and flat, and mostly resembling Parallelopcpids, rather than Cylin-xc ders , as the Eye witnesseth; so that here is a manifest Inconformity" <c to the Figure required indifferently in all the five Orders. 2. TheirContraction, or lessening upward,- is not uniform, but rudely vari-?*■ ous, in some greater, in others less, in none insensible, in all ir-“ regular 5 so as therein likewise they want the due Proportion ofDiminution common to-all genuinely figured -Gohlmns. 3. Theyf c have no Pedestals at all, -being set in the Ground; which is a thirdIncongruity. 4. The'Perpendiculars of the greater Circle are, ac-.cording to Mr. Jones h'is Measure, in Altitude-fifteen Foot and an" half, in Depth three Foot,' and in Breadth seven FdOtV Where then is" to be found the Proportion of Longitude to six Diameters of theiC thickest Part of the Column? 1 5. 1 Their Intervals, or middle"-Spaces, seem to-be about nine Foot. For, Mr. yones hitnfclf com-A.putcs theLength of each Epiftylium, Or Architrave, continued in•ff round fr om Column to Column, to be precisely sixteen Foot, and" there must be half the Breadth of the Column, at each End, allow-ed for the meeting of the two Architraves in the middle, if not" for the more firm bearing of their Weight; so that measuring the" Distance of the Supporters, by the remaining Part of the Archi*

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