Lectures on Architecture; Consisting of Rules Founded Upon Harmonick and Arithmetical Proportions in Building

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1734. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Paper; and when you are pleas'd to give Allowance for such Defect, I shall esteem it a Favour, and shall communicate any thing to you worthy your Notice: In the mean time I am, Gentlemen, Tours. Lecture VIII. Gentlemen, . 1PY preceding Lectures consisteth jMj chiefly of a Description of Prof portions to be used in Buildings, in which the external Part as well as the internal, are confined to stated Rules. I have endeavoured so to explain those Rules, to make them-useful in the Practice as well as Theory of all kinds of Building, and with as much Brevity as such Definitions would admit. There remains now to compleat my Design, only a proper disposition and proportion of Ornaments, to be apply'd to deck the Fabrick; and indeed, this is the most difficult part of Architecture, so to dispose of Ornaments as to fill up useless Vacuities, and to give a proper Allevi