Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 72
dings 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 Aviiter uponarchitecture, that the gradual substitution of stone for wood as abuildiiag material would naturally account for certain elements… … Wood Coustriictiou. posts. The stylobate, plinth, and base, he derives from d, 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 the posts, and togive the joists a broader bearing upon the points of their support.…
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