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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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6. Wishing to set up columns in that temple, but not having rules for their symmetry, and being in search of some way by which they could render them fit to bear a load and also of a satisfactory beauty of appearance, they measured the imprint of a man's foot and compared this with his height. On finding that, in a man, the foot was one sixth of the height, they applied the same principle to the column, and reared the shaft, including the capital, to a height six times its thickness at its base. Thus the Doric column, as used in buildings, began to exhibit the proportions, strength, and beauty of the body of a man.
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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