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but in all the other orders there are uniformly fifty minutes
allowed.
Some architects, however, contend for various degrees of
diminution, according to the character of each column. They
aflign to the Tufcan one fourth, to the Doric one fifth, to the
Ionic one fixth, to the Compofite and Corinthian one feventh,
of the inferior or largeft diameter.
This makes no difference, however, in the method of di-
minution above taught; for if the Tufcan be diminifhed one
fourth, then divide a femidiameter into four parts, and take one
of thofe for the diminution on each fide, and proceed as before;
fo alfo of the other.
I fhall now quote a few words from Sir William Chambers
on this fubjeCt, by which the reader, if he pleafe, may form
his judgment. He fays, “ In the remains of antiquity, the
quantity of diminution is various; but feldom lefs than one
eighth of the inferior diameter of the column, nor more than
one fixth of it. The laft of thefe is by Vitruvius efteemed the
moft perfect. Vignola has employed it in four of his orders,
as I have done in all of them, there being no reafon for dimi-
nifhing the Tufcan column more in proportion to its diameter
than any of the reft.”
How
but in all the other orders there are uniformly fifty minutes
allowed.
Some architects, however, contend for various degrees of
diminution, according to the character of each column. They
aflign to the Tufcan one fourth, to the Doric one fifth, to the
Ionic one fixth, to the Compofite and Corinthian one feventh,
of the inferior or largeft diameter.
This makes no difference, however, in the method of di-
minution above taught; for if the Tufcan be diminifhed one
fourth, then divide a femidiameter into four parts, and take one
of thofe for the diminution on each fide, and proceed as before;
fo alfo of the other.
I fhall now quote a few words from Sir William Chambers
on this fubjeCt, by which the reader, if he pleafe, may form
his judgment. He fays, “ In the remains of antiquity, the
quantity of diminution is various; but feldom lefs than one
eighth of the inferior diameter of the column, nor more than
one fixth of it. The laft of thefe is by Vitruvius efteemed the
moft perfect. Vignola has employed it in four of his orders,
as I have done in all of them, there being no reafon for dimi-
nifhing the Tufcan column more in proportion to its diameter
than any of the reft.”
How