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Subtitle: Or, Disquisitions Concerning the Antiquity and Scientific End of the Great Pyramid of Giza ... and of the First Standard of Linear Measure General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Original Publisher: Taylor Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Whoever will read Pliny on this subject, will be convinced of the truth of the description here given of the unfavorable commencement, the inauspicious pro- o-ress, and consequent imperfect state of architectural magnificence at Rome, just before and immediately after the first emperors. Now the remains of such structures became the object of the most earnest avidity of the academicians of Paris, who sent Desgodetz to Rome in search even of every fragment of their ruins, which, in about ten years he collected ; and highly fmished plates were engraved from his accurate drawings, and published by royal munificence: and these are the Roman antique, by which, exclusively, Perrault seems to have been guided, in his comments on Vitruvius. And this, in part accounts for the many misconceptions into which he was betrayed, upon reading the text of Vitruvius ; and for the frequent corrections he made, and distortions of the text, to conform it to the ideas he had preconceived from these examples of the Roman antique; from which Vitruvius himself, we may venture to affirm, never framed a single document, throughout his whole canon of symmetries. Yet because he was a Roman and and wrote in latin, (for no better reason exists, ) many have concluded, as Perrault seems to have done, that he assisted himself in composing his work, by the then existing examples at Rome. This error most of the moderns have given into; and amongst them the writer
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