. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. STAIRCASES. 929. FiK- • Fig. 096. lade quite square, so as to turn on tlio four sides round a close or open newel, as injiff. which the former is the case, light being obtained by windows in the walls which encloselie newel ; or, asm Ji;/. 996. : in which case, the newel is open, and the light may be receivedither from a verticil light above, or from side windows in the walls. Palladio says thesewo sorts of stairs were invented by Sig. Lu
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. STAIRCASES. 929. FiK- • Fig. 096. lade quite square, so as to turn on tlio four sides round a close or open newel, as injiff. which the former is the case, light being obtained by windows in the walls which encloselie newel ; or, asm Ji;/. 996. : in which case, the newel is open, and the light may be receivedither from a verticil light above, or from side windows in the walls. Palladio says thesewo sorts of stairs were invented by Sig. Ludovico Cornaro, a gentleman of much genius,rho erected for himself a magnlKcent p;daee at Iadua. 2806. Of winding or spiral stairs, some are circular on the i)lan, either open or with aolid newel; others elliptical, also with open or solid newels. Those witli tlie open newellie ])referable, because of their allowing the staircase to be lighted additionally, if re<iuisite,)v the light obtainable from above ; besides which, persons passing up and down may see?ach Palladio thus directs the setting out of spiral staircases. Those, he says, which
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