The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte.

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Title: The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte.
Author: Shute, John, d. 1563.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete nere to Sainct Dunstans churche by Thomas Marshe,; 1563.
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Subject terms: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
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BASIS or SPIRA.

RIght and directely vpon the middell of the Pedestall shalbe set Spira or the Base of the pillor marked with D. whose height shalbe a Modulus, or halfe the thiknes∣of the pillor, y^e which height ye shal deuid into .6. partes geue one part vnto Torus aboue marked with E. y^e other .5, partes shalbe deuided into .3 partes geue one part vnto Plinthus marked with F. the other .2. partes you shall deuide into .12 partes wherof ye shal geue .5. partes vnto Torus the lower marked with G. geue also .2. partes to the two Astragali with their Rute whose marke is. H. the which edge or regula, is in height y^e one half of .1. Astra∣galus, geue also .1 parte vnto that, which is marked with I. some name it Echinus, but the gar∣nishing therof is not like Echinus, which lieth vnder the higher Torus, whose edge shalbe half a part. So that the highest Torus, & Scotia, marked with K (the which y^e grekes call Troche∣lon) be very nigh of one height. The Proiectures of this Base are as before is rehersed in Co∣rinthia.