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PRACTICE OF
ARCHITECTURE. Book III.
2G'27.
Tlie ratios that have been deduced by comparing the void and solid parts, if there
be anv reason in the considerations had, show that this law of making arches in arcades of
the
hei'fht of 2 diameters is not empirical, the following being the results of the use of the
ratios in the arcade without, and that with pedestal, of which we shall presently treat. Thus
in the
Tuscan arcade without pedestal,
Doric arcade without pedestal,
Ionic arcade without pedestal,
Corinthian arcade without pedestal.
13-5 height
e-5 width
140
7
1.V.S3
710
18 00
7 76
Diameters. Diameters
17'5
= 2-0; with pedestals,
-n7c=
1
"84
= 2-0
=
2-3
100-^
uu
2''-0
2628. In the examples of the arcades with pedestals, we shall again repeat the process bj
rhich the results are obtained, first merely stating them in round numbers. i-Vy. 'Jo3 is a
a 10 '1 12 13 U
Moiules
Ftg. 913
Tuscan arcade from Vignola's example, as will be tlie following ones. In this the wliole
area is
306, omitting fractions, the area of the void is 156, that of the entablature .'30,
and the supports 100. The ratio of the supjxjrted part (the entablature), therefijre,
*^
TO=
'5' and the supports and weights are very nearly efpial to the void The height of
the pedestal is almost
3 modules and 8 parts, the opening
9 modules 6 parts, and the
"width of tlie whole pier 4 modules and 3 parts.
The detail of tlie above result is as follows .

The whole area, 22*30

X 13-75 -
- - _
=306"62
Area of semi-arch,
^^^^^^-'^'-^
^ 35.43
Below that, 12-75
x 9 75
Entablature, 13*75x3-66
-
Leaves for supporting parts
:121-12
Total voids, therefore^ : 156-55
150-07
: 50-82
99-75