. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. heintercoluniniations, though in book 4. he inserts a diagram wherein iiitercolunms ajipear,merely saying that they are equal to 3 diameters. The total height according to ourmeasure is 19 modules and 3 parts. 2559. Scaiiiozzi makes the shaft of his column 6 diameters, and diminishes it one fourthpart of its diameter. The heights of the base and cajiital are each half a diameter. Tothe entablature he assigns for height one fourth of the height of th
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. heintercoluniniations, though in book 4. he inserts a diagram wherein iiitercolunms ajipear,merely saying that they are equal to 3 diameters. The total height according to ourmeasure is 19 modules and 3 parts. 2559. Scaiiiozzi makes the shaft of his column 6 diameters, and diminishes it one fourthpart of its diameter. The heights of the base and cajiital are each half a diameter. Tothe entablature he assigns for height one fourth of the height of the column, including itsbase and capital, less half its diameter. He jilaces a soit of triglyjih in the frieze, whicharises from a niisconception of the text of \itruvius. The height of his pedestal is a fourthpart of that of the column, with base and capital, less half a diameter. The whole heightin our nieasiae is 21 modules and 9 parts. Sect. IV. THE DORIC ORDER. 2560. The Doric order of the moderns is of two sorts : mutular and denticular, theformer is represented in Jig. 879. A is a plan of the sofite of the corona ; B, a plan of the -A. capital ; and C, a plan of the base. In the frieze the channelled projections arc calledtrii/li/phs, and the spaces between them mctojju:, which should ui breadth be equal to ihcif fcS PRACTICE OF ARCHITECIUKE. Boos ill. heigfat. vhirli k tbat of the frieie. The shaft is osuallj channelled widi trentr ^^ the tri^jphs are <&strib«itie«l mmtaiu or madDIkias, and anodMT peculiarity is theLurtidaction of fmOde or Jraps, wliich decorate tbe :^ofite of the oorake and die feet of thetri«:ljphs. :i36I. Dariler, speakii^ of tbe tvo Doric entaUatuies giTen by Ylgnda, admires tbeelegance of their compositioii, and scarcely knovs vfaidi of tbem to sdect as die mostbeaadfiiL ?^ Tbe first (or denCiciilarX bereafter inimediatdy salijtMned, says Chambers,feUowii^ tbat antbor, vfaiefa is entirdy antique, is tbe lightest, and consequently {bto-p
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