Alberti, Leone Battista
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Architecture
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1755
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ARCHITECTURE
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Leone Batiſta Alberti.
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>BOOK III. CHAP. I.</
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Of the Work. </
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>Wherein lies the Buſineſs of the Work; the different Parts of
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the Wall, and what they require. </
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>That the Foundation is no Part of the
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Wall; what Soil makes the beſt Foundation.
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>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. </
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>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. </
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>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. </
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>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. </
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>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. </
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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. </
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>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. </
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>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. </
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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? </
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