A new treatise of architecture, according to Vitruvius wherein is discoursed of the five orders of columns, viz. : the Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : divided into seven chapters : vvhich declare their different proportions, measures, and proper names, according to the practice of the antient architects, both Greeks and Romans : as also of all their parts general and particular necessary in ... the beautifying of buildings in cities, as for necessary fortifications of them / designed by Julian Mauclerc ... ; whereunto are added the several measures and proportions of the famous architects, Scamozzi, Palladio, and Vignola : with some rules of perspective ; the whole represented in fifty large prints ...; so set forth in English by Robert Pricke.

Here followeth the Antiquity of the Tuscan Column first in Order.

BEcause the Tuscan Column is more gross and stronger then any of the other following, it hath been more used by the Antients in Fortresses, because it is more fit, as being less charged with moulding, and by this means less subject to be corrupted. Pliny the Historographer speaketh of its Antiquity, that the Tuscans which at present inhabit the Coun∣trey about Florence, were descended from the Greeks, wherefore the Tuscan much resembleth the Dorick. Some Architects do write, that this Column hath its name from a certain Gyant named Tuscan, of whom, as they say, the High Dutch Almaius are descended. But it is true, that the Tuscan is the thickest and strongest of all; by reason of its strength, I have set it in the first place, as hath been said before; for the said Tuscan hath but six Diameters of its Body at the bottom in length or height, the Dorick seven, the Ionick eight, the Corinthian nine, the Composite ten.