An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius: Containing a System of the Whole Works of that AuthorVitruvius Pollio
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An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius: Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author
Vitruvius Pollio
Architecture -- Early works to 1800
_Corona_, called the _Plat_ or _flat Crown_, is a particular
Member in the _Dorick_ Gate; it's made by so
extraordinary enlargement of the _Face_ of the _Corona_
or _Drip_, that it has six times more Breadth than
Projecture. This sort of _Corona_ is no where found among
the Ancients, but only in the Writings of _Vitruvius_.
_Cymatium_, from [Greek: kymaton], which signifies a rouling
_Wave_; is a Member of Architecture, of which the one
half is _Convex_ and the other _Concave_, the one being
hollow above, and the other below. There are two sorts of
them, the one called the _Gola_ or _Throats_, or the
_Doucine_, whose advanced part is _Concave_; and the
other is called by the French the _Talon_ or Heel, whose
advanced part is hollow below, as the first is above.
D
_Die_ is the middle of the Pedestals, _viz._ that which is
between their _Basis_ and their _Cornice_. It's so
called, because it's for the most part of a Cubit form,
as _Die's_ are that are used in play.
_Dentils_, or Teeth, is a Member of the _Jonick_ Cornice,
which is square, and cut out at convenient distances,
which gives it the form of a Set or Gang of Teeth.
_Diastyle_, from [Greek: dia] and [Greek: stylos]: _Columna_
is a sort of Edifice where the Pillars are distanced one
from another the breadth of 3 Diameters of the Pillar.
_Diptere_, from [Greek: dis] and [Greek: pteron]: _Ala_
signifies that which has a double Isle or Wing; the
Ancients called so the Temples, which were surrounded
with two Ranges of Pillars, for there two _Ranges_ made
two _Portico's_, which they called _Wings_, we _Isles_,
from the French word _Ailes_, which signifies _Wings_,
because as Wings are on the sides of Birds, so these of
Edifices.
E
_Echinus_, from [Greek: apo tou echinou] a _Hedg-hog_; it is
a Member of Architecture, which we call a
_Quarter-round_; it has its name from the roughness of
its Carving, resembling the prickly Rhind of the Chesnut,
and not unlike the Hedg-hog; it's commonly next to the
_Abacus_, and carved with Ovals and Darts, sometimes
called Eggs and Anchors, because these pretended Chesnuts
are cut in an Oval form.
_Entablature_ signifies properly the Flooring or Lofting
with Boards; it comes from the Latin word _Tabulatum_. In
Architecture it's that part which is composed of the
_Architrave_, _Frise_, and _Cornice_, for in effect this
part is the extream part of the Flooring, which is
supported by Pillars, or by a Wall if it have no Pillars.
_Eye_ is the middle of the _Jonick_ Volute, which is cut in
the form of a little Rose.
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