An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 873
es fordescribing the first conchoid, which, applied at the bottom of the shaft, gives, by continuedmotion, both the swelling and the diminution. Vignola had not strictly anticipated Blondelin this method, which, it is said, was that used for tlie columns in the Pantheon ; but tiieold master had… … (Stampanis edit. Dei cinque Ordiiii -iT Architethira, Roma, 1770, cap. 7. p. 51.), In re-spect of this second mode, it is my own discovery, and will be soon understood by thefigure, though not so well known as the first named. The measures of the columnliaving been fixed, namely, the lieight of the…
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