Andrea Palladio's first book of architecture : with all the plates, exactly copyed from the first Italian edition, printed in Venice, anno 1570 (1728)
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 · London : Printed for S. Harding ... · leaf 106
s they generally are in the firft Story, (this giving them a graceful Afpeft, and ma¬ king them lefs fubjedt to Fire,) their height in fquare Rooms , is a third part more than the breadth of the Room. But in thofe whofe length exceeds their breadth, a height mull be fought proportionable to their… … to two equal parts in the Point F, gives F B the height required. Or if the Chamber to be arched be twelve Foot long and fix wide ;
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