Alberti, Leone Battista, Architecture, 1755

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              <s>THE
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              ARCHITECTURE
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              OF
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              Leone Batiſta Alberti.
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              <s>BOOK III. CHAP. I.</s>
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              Of the Work. </s>
              <s>Wherein lies the Buſineſs of the Work; the different Parts of
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              the Wall, and what they require. </s>
              <s>That the Foundation is no Part of the
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              Wall; what Soil makes the beſt Foundation.
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              <s>The whole Buſineſs of the working
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              Part of Building is this; by a re­
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              gular and artful Conjunction of
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              different Things, whether ſquare
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              Stone, or uneven Scantlings, or
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              Timber, or any other ſtrong Material, to form
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              them as well as poſſible into a ſolid, regular,
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              and conſiſtent Structure. </s>
              <s>We call it regular
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              and conſiſtent when the Parts are not incon­
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              gruous and disjointed, but are diſpoſed in their
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              proper Places, and are anſwerable one to the
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              other, and conformable to a right Ordinance of
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              Lines. </s>
              <s>We are therefore to conſider what are
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              the principal eſſential Parts in the Wall, and
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              what are only the Lines and Diſpoſition of
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              thoſe Parts. </s>
              <s>Nor are the Parts of the Wall
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              any Thing difficult to find out; for the Top,
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              the Bottom, the right Side, the Left, the re­
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              mote Parts, the Near, the Middle are obvious
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              of themſelves; but the particular Nature of
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              each of theſe, and wherein they differ, is not
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              ſo eaſily known. </s>
              <s>For the raiſing a Building is
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              not, as the Ignorant imagine, merely laying
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              Stone upon Stone, or Brick upon Brick; but
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              as there is a great Diverſity of Parts, ſo there
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              requires a great Diverſity of Materials and Con­
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              trivance. </s>
              <s>For one Thing is proper in the
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              Foundation, another in the naked Wall and in
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              the Corniſh, another for the Coins, and for the
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              Lips of the Apertures, one for the outward
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              Face of the Wall, another for the cramming
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              and filling up the middle Parts: Our Buſineſs
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              here is to ſhew what is requiſite in each of
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              theſe. </s>
              <s>In doing this, therefore, we ſhall begin
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              at the Foundation, imitating, as we ſaid before,
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              thoſe that are actually going to raiſe the Struc­
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              ture. </s>
              <s>The Foundation, if I miſtake not, is
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              not properly a Part of the Wall, but the Place
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              and Seat on which the Wall is reared. </s>
              <s>For
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              if we can find a Seat perfectly firm and ſolid,
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              conſiſting perhaps of nothing but Stone, what
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              Foundation are we obliged to make? </s>
              <s>None, </s>
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