Habes in hac paginâ deformationes vestigii & elevationis capitelli Corinthii, quas desumpsimus ex delineationibus geometricis, transferendo mensuras earum in lineas plani AB, & elevationis AC, ita ut facillimè dignosci possit unde nascantur singulæ partes capitellorum nitidorum. Nihil dubito quin deformationes horizontales sis experturus faciliores verticalibus quas dedimus figurâ vigesimaquartâ. Nam in horizontalibus gyrus foliorum circulis clauditur, quorum centra mutuantur latitudines à suis vestigiis in punctis 1, 2, 3, 4; altitudines verò à capitellis elevationis in punctis 5, 6, 7, 8.
Eighty-third FIGURE.
A Corinthian Capital horizontally contracted in Perspective.
You have in this Plate the Perspective both of the Plan and Elevation of the Corinthian Capital, drawn from the Geometrical Descriptions, by transferring their Measures into the Ground-line AB, and into that of the Elevation AC; so that you may readily discover from whence every part of the finish’d Capital is produc’d. I don’t doubt but you’ll experience these horizontal Perspectives to be much less difficult than the vertical propos’d in the Twenty-fourth Figure. For in these the Circuit of the Leaves is determin’d by perfect Circles, whose Centers take their Breadths from the Plan at the Points 1, 2, 3, 4; and their Heights from the Capitals of the Elevation, at the Points 5, 6, 7, 8.
Fig. lxxxiv.
Figura Octogesimaquarta.
Coronix Corinthia.