1594

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ENGINEERING.

Book II.

arrangement of the ornaments : further details will be found in the Architectural Antiquitiesof Rome, whence this has been selected.

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Fig. 2987. CAPITALS OP PANTHEON. Fig. 2989.

Although the Homan? did not improve the arts which the Greeks had spread amongthem, by the introduction of the arch they materially altered the character of the archi-tecture practised before the time of the Republic: this feature alone produced entirely