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History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)

Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 105

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EREC THEUM. … PARTHENON GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. 85 Fie. 12. shaft is six diameters. From a careful comparisonof ancient Doric columns, the following proportionshave been established. The shaft, six diameters; thecapital, half a diameter; the abacus, quarter of a diame-ter. The shaft diminishes in thickness as it…

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