Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Preface	47
	Ordonnance and the Architectural Orders	65
	The Dimensions Regulating the Proportions of the Orders	67
	The General Proportions of the Three Main Parts of Entire Columns	70
	The Height of Entablatures	71
	The Length of Columns	74
	The Height of Entire Pedestals	77
	The Proportions of the Parts of Pedestals	80
	The Diminution and Enlargement of Columns	82
	The Projection of the Base of Columns	85
	The Projection of the Base and Cornice of Pedestals	86
	The Projection of the Cornice of Entablatures	89
	The Proportions of Capitals	91
	The Proportions of the Astragal and the Lip of the Column Shaft	92
	The Tuscan Order	97
	The Doric Order	105
	The Ionic Order	116
	The Corinthian Order	129
	The Composite Order	142
	Pilasters	151
	Abuses in the Alteration of Proportions	153
	Some Other Abuses Introduced into Modern Architecture	166
	Bibliography	185
	Index	190