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Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients

Part One

  1. Ordonnance and the Architectural Orders

  2. The Dimensions Regulating the Proportions of the Orders

  3. The General Proportions of the Three Main Parts of Entire Columns

  4. The Height of Entablatures

  5. The Length of Columns

  6. The Height of Entire Pedestals

  7. The Proportions of the Parts of Pedestals

  8. The Diminution and Enlargement of Columns

  9. The Projection of the Base of Columns

  10. The Projection of the Base and Cornice of Pedestals

  11. The Projection of the Cornice of Entablatures

  12. The Proportions of Capitals

  13. The Proportions of the Astragal and the Lip of the Column Shaft

Part Two

  1. The Tuscan Order

  2. The Doric Order

  3. The Ionic Order

  4. The Corinthian Order

  5. The Composite Order

  6. Pilasters

  7. Abuses in the Alteration of Proportions

  8. Some Other Abuses Introduced into Modern Architecture