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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 127

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r as iapossible. § XIII. All the five capitals (wliicli are indeed five orderswith legitimate distinction ; very difterent, however, from thefive orders as commonly vinderstood) may be represented bythe same profile, a section through the sides of a, b, d, and e,or through the angles of c. Fig.… … FiG. XXIII. ever, relations of proportion exist between five quantities, anyone, or any two, or any three, or any four of which may change,irrespective of the others. These five qunntities are : 1. The height of the shaft, ah ; 2. Its diameter, h c ; 3. The length of slope of bell, h d ; 4. The…

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