Gabb, Thomas: Finis pyramidis or Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific end of the great pyramid of Giza, or ancient Memphis, in Egypt, and of the first standard of linear measure (Retford, 1806)

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fiìgh, the same number ought to have been between the
corona and the top of the under pannel : and the mi-
nutes in the height of the middle fascia of the epistyle,
ought to have been the breadth of the margin between
the upper and under pannel of the dado; and this mar-
gin continued on the four sides, setting off at bottom,
the same as at top, and in the very projectures also of
the fascias of the epistyles, the pannels, or scannili im-
pares, will then be compleated in the symmetry of the
members above in the epistyles, as Vitruvius has order-
ed ; who only assimilates the symmetries, between the
scamilli impares and the epistyles,by the moduli aequales,
or, equalised tallies, and not by detached pannels, or,
interruptions of the fascias in the epistyles, where their
continued line does not cause, as in the dado of the
stylobates, any trench-like appearance.

The device, adopted by Perrault, besides the objec-
tions made to it by Baldus, by breaking the epistyles, in
the manner he does the stylobates, narrows the soffits
over the intercolumns, so much, as to render them un-
safe, and of a monstrous appearance ; moreover it
perverts the rule, which requires them to be equal to
the upper diameter of the shaft ; and, lastly, requires
similar breaks in the freeze and cornice, than which
nothing can be conceived more ridiculous and absurd,

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SECT. III.

What completes an Exemplar of Grecian architecture.

THE confusion, arising from the unmeaning terms,
the five orders of architecture, has occasioned, amongst
other absurdities, a difference of opinion, as to what
constitutes an exemplar of Grecian architecture, or what

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