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he Figure BB. Tab. II. The Third is called _Diastyle_; _viz._ where the Pillars are further distant, the space of the Intercolumniation being three Diameters, and the Inconvenience is, that the space is so great, that the _Architraves_ which lie upon the two Pillars are in danger of breaking; because the Ancients made them of one Stone. See Figure CC. Tab. II. [Sidenote: _Lib. 3. Chap. 8._] The Fourth is called _Areostyle_; _viz._ where the Pillars are set very thin, there is no certain Proportion, but the distance of one Pillar from another, is much greater than that of _Diastyle_; and for this reason it can have no _Architrave_ but of Wood. See the Figure DD. Tab. II. The Fifth is called _Eustyle_; _viz._ where the Pillars are distant from one another by a more convenient Proportion than in any of the other kind. The distance consists of two Diameters of the Pillars, and one Fourth part of the Diameter: It has also this in particular, That the Intercolumniation in the middle is larger than the rest, having three Diameters of the Pillars; for this reason it surpasseth all others in Beauty, Solidity, and Convenience. See Tab. III. Although the Essentials of these five Kinds, consist in the Proportion that is between the Diameter of the Pillar, and its Intercolumniation, they are also different by the Proportion which is between the Diameter of the Pillar and its height for the _Genders_ or sorts, in which the Pillars are close one to another, ought to have the lesser Pillars; and in that kind, where the Pillars are in a greater distance one from another, they ought to be greater. [Sidenote: _Lib._ 4. _Cap._ 7.] But it's true, notwithstanding that these Proportions are not always observ'd, and that very often, to the _Ionick_ and _Corinthian_ Pillars, which are the smallest of all, Intercolumniations are given, which are proper to those of the _Thuscan Order_, where the Pillars are the greatest. [Sidenote: _Lib. 3. Chap. 2._] But the Ordinary Practice is, to give to the Pillars of the _Areostyle_ kind, the Magnitude of the 8th part of their height. As to the _Diastyle_ and _Eustyle_, the height is divided into Eight parts and an half, to give one to the breadth. In the _Systyle_ Kind, the Height is divided into Nine parts and an half, and one is given to the thickness. In the _Picnostyle_, the thickness of the Pillar is the 10th part of the height, the reason of these different Proportions is f
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