Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 479
s rise a little. I The front of the Parthenon, at ! Athens, is one hundred and one feet three and a half inches long, and, in this, the rise from the horizontal is about two and one eighth inches. In other words, there is a curvature upward that makes it a little more than two inches higher in the… … RUINS OF THE PARTHENON — WEST FRONT. called entasis. Of course it had to be calculated I carefully measured was found to be everywhere madewith the greatest nicety, and was actually so very I a little incorrect, so that it may appear right, which >■] THOSE CLEVER GREEKS. 943 is certainly whatmay…
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