. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. paratively modern, we think it rightto give the following particulars ofthe order : — The columns are 34 -67ft. high, the lower diameter being3-64 ft. The shafts are fluted, andhave what are called cnhUngs up onethird of their height. It will be seenon inspection of the plan that thesecolumns are placed in front of thegreat niches. We are not aware thattlie circumstance whereto we areabout to advert has been heretoforenoticed, and we give the result
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. paratively modern, we think it rightto give the following particulars ofthe order : — The columns are 34 -67ft. high, the lower diameter being3-64 ft. The shafts are fluted, andhave what are called cnhUngs up onethird of their height. It will be seenon inspection of the plan that thesecolumns are placed in front of thegreat niches. We are not aware thattlie circumstance whereto we areabout to advert has been heretoforenoticed, and we give the result of ourcalculation in round numbers only, as an approximation to the truth. The rules forlighting apartments will form the subject of a future section. VV^e shall here merely ,that the contents of the building, measuring round the inner convexity of the columns, andnot calculating the , is about 1,787,300 cubic feet, and that the area of the eye of thedome is about 32 scpiare ft., from which it follows that 2226 cubic ft. of space in thisbuilding are lighted by 1 foot superficial of light. The building is neither gloomy nor.
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