Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 71
ildings of the Greeks, and therefore to be a copy,in stone, of the forms and parts of a wooden building. It was the theory of Vitruvius, the principal ancient writer uponarchitecture, that the gradual substitution of stone for wood as abuilding material would naturally account for certain elements… … Fig. 52. Wood Construct iou. posts. The stylobate, ])linth, and base, he derives from a sill or beamon which the posts rested. The capital is merely a plate or block,intended to shorten the span of the joists resting upon theposts, and togive the joists a broader bearing upon the points of their…
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