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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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4. Upon the columns lay the main beams, fastened together, to a height commensurate with the requirements of the size of the building. These beams fastened together should be laid so as to be equivalent in thickness to the necking at the top of a column, and should be fastened together by means of dowels and dove-tailed tenons in such a way that there shall be a space two fingers broad between them at the fastening. For if they touch one another, and so do not leave airholes and admit draughts of air to blow between them, they get heated and soon begin to rot.
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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