Encyclopedia of architecture : a dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, carpentry, etc., from the earliest ages to the present time, forming a comprehensive work of reference for the use of architects, builders, carpenters, masons, engineers, students, professional men, and amateurs (1852)
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844, Lomax, Edward, Gunyon, Thomas · New York : Johnson, Fry & Co. · leaf 272
ng so important as the dimensionsof the shafts of colunms. The colunms of the Pantheon, of the temples of Vesta, ofJupiter Stator, of Antoninus and Faustina, of Concord, of thearch of Titus, of the portico of Septimius, and of the theatreof Marcellus, at Rome, are all diminished from the bottom. C… … /iV/. -i. ■4i n (_• COL 181 COL Columns may be diminished by a curve, according to any of the following methods: Method I.—Fioure 1. Take the semi-diameter, a b, atthe top of the shaft, and apply it from c to d on the semi-diameter, c E, at the bottom ; with the radius, c e, describean arc, e f.…
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