Practical Geometry Applied to the Useful Arts of Building, Surveying, Gardening, and Mensuration: Calculated for the Service of Gentlemen as Well as ... or the Foundations of the Several Arts - Softcover
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To the length of the Corinthian column, Vitruvius gives nine diameters thirty minutes, and Serlio nine diameters only; at the porch of the Pantheon they are nine diameters thirty fix minutes.
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