. Discovery. Science. 186 niSCOVERY Billington (John Richardson, London, about 1820), it is stated that the principal nave of St. Peter's is 610 feet in h-ngth and the transverse is 457 feet. These a- -BUI' £Ej FIG. 7. figures are within eight inches of absolute agreement with the ratio of 4 to 3. In the grottoes of Benihassen, on the Nile, are two chambers whose measurements are given as length, 52 feet 5 inches ; breadth, 39 feet 4 inches. The floors of these chambers thus form rectangles in the ratio of 4 to 3, with a discrepancy of only one-third of an inch. (Fo
. Discovery. Science. 186 niSCOVERY Billington (John Richardson, London, about 1820), it is stated that the principal nave of St. Peter's is 610 feet in h-ngth and the transverse is 457 feet. These a- -BUI' £Ej FIG. 7. figures are within eight inches of absolute agreement with the ratio of 4 to 3. In the grottoes of Benihassen, on the Nile, are two chambers whose measurements are given as length, 52 feet 5 inches ; breadth, 39 feet 4 inches. The floors of these chambers thus form rectangles in the ratio of 4 to 3, with a discrepancy of only one-third of an inch. (For measurements, see Narrative of a Journey in Egypt, b}' Thomas Legh, : Murray, 1816.) The houses at Priene usually occupied a space of 80 feet by 60 feet {The Planning of Hellenistic Cities, Professor Percy Gardner ; Transactions of Town Plan- ning Conference in London, 1910). At Silchester the remains of the old streets can be traced, and are laid out at right angles, with one large rectangle in the proportion of 4 to 3 for the central part of the town (Professor F. Haverfield, in above Transactions). In English black-and-white buildings the prevalence of this root figure is very marked in the proportions of windows, timber-framing, roof gables, and sizes of rooms. will be found in Hall-i'-th'-Woods, Bolton, illustrated in Building World, November 27, 1915 ; Bamfurlong Hall, in Building World, January 22, 1910 ; Old Clergy House, Alfriston, in Building World, November 25, 1911. Other examples might be added from French and Italian work. By another combination of the root triangles, in the manner shown in Fig. 2, a rectangle in the proportion of 8 to 3 is obtained. In the Bottom Chamber in the Great Pyramid the end wall is said to measure 27 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, which is within 4J inches of the above proportion. The measurements are taken from Chambers's Encyclopcsdia. The main hall at Hampton Court is described in Cresey's Civil Engineering as measuring 1
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