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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: THE ORIGINS OF THE THREE ORDERS, AND THE PROPORTIONS OF THE CORINTHIAN CAPITAL
CHAPTER II: THE ORNAMENTS OF THE ORDERS
CHAPTER III: PROPORTIONS OF DORIC TEMPLES
CHAPTER IV: THE CELLA AND PRONAOS
CHAPTER V: HOW THE TEMPLE SHOULD FACE
CHAPTER VI: THE DOORWAYS OF TEMPLES
CHAPTER VII: TUSCAN TEMPLES
CHAPTER VIII: CIRCULAR TEMPLES AND OTHER VARIETIES
CHAPTER IX: ALTARS
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9. The columns should be fluted with twenty flutes. If these are to be left plane, only the twenty angles need be marked off. But if they are to be channelled out, the contour of the channelling may be determined thus: draw a square with sides equal in length to the breadth of the fluting, and centre a pair of compasses in the middle of this square. Then describe a circle with a circumference touching the angles of the square, and let the channellings have the contour of the segment formed by the circumference and the side of the square. The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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