The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: In Ten Books |
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abacus analemma angles antę appearance architect ARCHITECTURE OF MARCUS architrave arrangement axle beams body bricks buildings built Cęsar capital Capricornus catapultę cell centre channels Chap CHAPTER colour columns constructed Corinthian Corinthian order cornices Ctesibius cymatium described diameter Dinocrates distance divided Doric order earth equal explain feet fire foot fourth front gnomon Greeks Greeks call half heat heavens height helepolis Hence hole hypotrachelium intercolumniations Ionic laid length less levers lime Lockwood lower Ludgate Hill machine marble MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO middle module moisture nature palęstra pass peristylium pieces placed plastering PLATE portico pounds pronaos proportions pulleys raised right and left roof ropes round sand shaft side similar sort space species springs square Stationers Hall Court stone tablinum temple tetrachord theatre therein thickness timber tion tower triclinia triglyphs tympanum upper vessel voice walls wheel whence width wind
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Page 82 - Corinthian virgin, who was of marriageable age, fell a victim to a violent disorder; after her interment, her nurse, collecting in a basket those articles to which she had shown a partiality when alive, carried them to her tomb, and placed a tile on the basket, for the longer preservation of its contents. The basket was accidentally placed on the root of an acanthus plant, which, pressed by the weight, shot forth, towards spring...
Page 82 - ... and large foliage, and in the course of its growth reached the angles of the tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who, for his great ingenuity and taste...
Page 63 - Proportion is a due adjustment of the size of the different parts to each other and to the whole; on this proper adjustment symmetry depends. Hence no building can be said to be well designed which wants symmetry and proportion.
Page 202 - But a report having been circulated, that some of the gold had been abstracted, and that the deficiency thus caused had been supplied by silver, Hiero was indignant at the fraud, and, unacquainted with the method by which the theft might be detected, requested Archimedes would undertake to give it his attention. Charged with this commission, he by chance went to a bath, and on jumping into the tub, perceived that, just in the proportion that his body became immersed, in the same proportion the water...
Page iii - Plates. 5s. 130. GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE, An Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in ; with an Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Art in ^ Greece. By the EARL OF ABERDEEN. is. %,* The two preceding Works in One handsome Vol., half bound, entitled "ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE,
Page 39 - If to river or sea sand, potsherds ground and passed through a sieve, in the proportion of one third part, be added, the mortar will be better for use.^ The cause of the mass becoming solid when sand and water are added to the lime, appears to be, that stones, like other bodies, are a compound of elements : those which contain...
Page 3 - Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. He who is theoretic as well as practical, is therefore doubly armed; able not only to prove the propriety of his design, but equally so to carry it into execution.
Page 18 - ... placed that the inhabitants were continually out of health. At length they applied to Marcus Hostilius, and publicly petitioned him, and obtained his consent, to be allowed to seek and select a more wholesome spot to which the city might be removed. Without delay, and with much judgment, he bought an estate in a healthy place close to the sea, and requested the Roman senate and people to permit the removal of the city. He then set out the walls, and assigned a portion of the soil to each citizen...
Page 14 - A city on the seaside, exposed to south or west, will be insalubrious ; for in summer mornings a city thus placed would be hot, at noon it would be scorched. A city also with a western aspect would even at sunrise be warm, at noon hot, and in the evening of a burning temperature.
Page 10 - Greeks, are named 28«u: they are called ichnography, orthography, and scenography. The first is the representation on a plane of the ground-plan of the work, drawn by rule and compasses. The second is the elevation of the front, slightly shadowed, and shewing the forms of the intended building. The last exhibits the front and a receding side properly shadowed, the lines being drawn to their proper vanishing points. These three are the result of thought and invention. Thought is an effort of the...