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A12159 The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte. Shute, John, d. 1563. 1563 (1563) STC 22464; ESTC S101701 40,196 54

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haue a good sighte in Musycke and some knowlaige in Phisicke not altogether ignoraunt in Astronomie he must also besides all thise ben Philosophie very experte The causes why al thise sciences before named ought to be in him that is a parfaict Architect and maister of buildinges be of Vitruuius in this sorte rehersed If he haue saith he learninge he shall strengthen his memory with all written bookes and throughe drawing vtter his fantasie and shewe the trike or fascion of the thing that he goeth about to make And Geometrie teacheth vs the order of rules Compasses Squiers Quadrantes and Iuste waterleueles with manie other knowlaiges that procedeth thereof as Euclide and other authours also Sebastian Serli in his first Chapiter reherseth Opticke sheweth vs howe and by what meanes the lightes should be set into the House And howe they should be brought from place to place as to serue the hole house and euery place therin whiche Optica is properly called perspectiue and is of a furder speculacion then therin can or nedeth to be exprest which of Sebastian Serlius in his second booke first second and thirde Chapiter is partely declared Arithmeticke teacheth vs innumerable poinctes most necessarily required to the parfaicte knowlaige of this art ▪ for without yt we can neither know or yet discusse the measures and harde sentences or questions of Symetrie neither howe to accompte the Coste and charges of our labores An Architecte also must haue a knowlaige in hystories There be moreouer multitude of causes in buildinges and very many ornatures and garnishinges of which he must nedes geue answere from whēce they come and for what purpose they are made As for an example If a maister workman should make ymages figured like women clothed and garnished after a beautifull soarte which are named Cariatides and set them in his worke for pillers and make ouer their heade Mutilos and Coronas yf yt were demaunded of him to what purpose those ymages wer made then be shuld answer that Caria a towne in Peloponeso trayterously conspired with the Persians against the Grekes But the grekes getting the victorie ouer their enemies agreed with one accord and besieged Caria and wan the citie killed the men and toke the women carieng them as bond women not suffering them to put of their Ryche ornamentes and Iewelles to the intent that the showe of their triumphe myght be thereby the more glorious So they subdued weare brought into bondage For this cause and other suche lyke the chief maisters of Architecture made in their common places and pallaces suche women to beare vp the burthen of their buildinges the whiche was a remembraunce and memorial of their punishmentes for their mallice against the Grekes sustained by the Cariatides that is to saye by the women of Caria In lyke case dyd the Lacedemonians whan they with so littell a power ouercame suche a great host of the Percians and slew them After which conquest in their triumphe they builded a gallery whiche shoulde remayne vnto them for a perpetuall and euerlasting token of victorie and did set therin the figures and counterfeites of the Percians which before wer their prisoners in their straung apparaill standing in their pallaces supporting their galleries wherfore they were feared of their enemyes therby and also yet encouraged the hartes of the Citizens against their other enemies and backe frendes Vpon this example Pausanias did afterwarde make the counterfeates of the same Persiās and vpon their heddes he laide Epistilia and Coronas setting betwixt them Zophorus the which was garnished and figured with the Ieweles that they had taken from them being their enemies As Cuppes gobletes cheines girdelles suche lyke other Iewelles which wer plentifull among the Persians and vnder their fete was set Stylobata wherin were written their titles Many suche Histories an Architecte ought of necessitye to know Next vnto this doth follow Musicke which also is verie necessary for an Architecte for these causes must he haue as it were a foresight in it that therby the principall chambers of the house shuld with suche order be made that the voice or noyse of musicall Instrumentes should haue their perfaict Echo resounding pleasauntly to the eares of those that shal be heares therof as also the Romaines vsed in all their pallaces for many other necessities therunto belonging of the which Vitruuius maketh further demonstration as the refreshing of the Melancolicke mindes which ar alwaies trauailing for further knowlaige But now consequently followeth the cause why he should haue sight in Phisicke which through the knowlege of Astronomie parfaictly doth declare the mouings of the heauens and where vnto by their naturall inclinations they be disposed as also the vnderstanding of the plages or Coastes of the word which the Grekes call Climata to thyntent that he maye shewe what ground plottes stande in the most bolsom ayer to builde vpon And which also be the swet and holsome waters the moste fertill and frutefull places as namely for those plottes that stand cōtrary to thys order are not mete or necessarie to build vpon This bolsome ground so found wheron Ye shall build yemust furst haue knowlaige how to cast your ground plotte wherin you must deuide all your seuerall places of offices appartayning to the furniture of your house your principall chambers of rest and libraries and such other like must receyue their lightes from the East for that the sōne by natural heate at his rising draweth to him all corupte humors and euill vapors of the earth and quickneth the spirittes of man and beast and if ye will cast therin baynes or hot houses with winter Chābers and parlors they shal receiue light from the west For that side is defendid from the south windes which are greuous and contagious and also great wasters of all kinde of buildinges as may welbe parceuyd by old Edifices Your study places were you wold write draw or deuise or the places wher your Sellers shuld be cast ought to receiue their light from the northe by cause in that parte are the lights which are stedfast As for lights other wayes appointed I referre to the builders of those works But Vitruuius maketh no further mention therof Now also it belongeth to an Architecte to haue the knowlaige of Astronomie wherby he should directly know the foure principal places which are East west north and south with that whiche they call Equinoctium and Solsticium and the mouings of the sterres for without this knowlaige none can attaine vnto the making of horologes quadrantes Clockes dialles in the sonne necessary to be set in goodly Edyficies It belongeth also to an Architect to haue sight in Philosophie which teaching to be of a noble courage as Vitruuius saith and also gentil curtious faithfull and modest not geuen to auarice and filthy lucre as not to be troubled or corrupted with rewardes or giftes but with grauity and Sagenes to cōceine al honor and dignity in al thinges
conseruinge his good name and estimation Let him also take a charge of workes in hand being desired and not desirous of workes He which wold be an expert Architecte ought to haue all these sciences and knowlaiges To him that hath any science or knowlaige and iudgment therwith conceiued it is most euident and plaine Neuerthelesse it will sound straungely to some that a man shoulde learne so many sciences for the atteining of one and kepe all them in memorie for the practise of the same yet it is necessary and also mete that although he be not parfaict in them or euery of them yet he should haue some knowlaig in them and so it behoueth neither it is requisit that he should be so parfaict a Gramariā as was Aristarchus and yet not altogether with out it Nor in Musicke like vnto Aristoxenis neither in painting like Apelles nor Plastes or Stattuary like vnto Miron or Policrates neither in Phisike like to Hippocrates but yet in this and other not altogether ignoraunt But yf à man myght be parfaict in al these sciēces as were Aristarchus Samrius Plulolaus Architas Tarentinus Apollonius Pergeus Eratosthenes Sireneus Archimedes Scopinas for all these were strōgely weaponed with al these sciēces before rehersed he should be able to answer to all questiones therto apertaining But I may pray as Vitruuius doth saying I pray O Caesar and all other that rede this my writinges if ther be any thing disagreing to any of these sciences beare with me for I cōfesse my selfe saith he not to be parfaict in any of the other sciences But he nameth him selfe to be an Architect wherein he thinketh him selfe parfait But I the setter forth of this treatise in Englishe acknolage myself not to be a parfaict Architecte as he saith nor yet Gramariā though I haue put my selfe in prease it is not through the depe knowlaige aboue rehersed but I do it for to put in vre an entraūce or beginning to them which be therin Ignoraunt desyre further knowledge in these thinges as hereafter appereth by the declaration hereof THVSCANA TVSCANA THe maner and forme of the fiue principall pillors and their proper names with all their compoundes therto belonging and their setting in their iust places by the order and rule of Symetria and marked with the letters A. B. C. wherunto is made this piller Tuscana as it is figured inuented and made by the Ionians vpon the Simetrie of a strong man Renewed and found agayne by the Tuscanes and o them taketh his name ❧ THVSCANA whose marke is K●th Proiecture or hāging ouer shal be so muche as the pillor is diminished on eche side the which is correspondent to the thicknes of Scapus beneth Thus writeth Sebastian Serlias of the proiecture of this Capitall Neuertheles I haue sene in some places in Italie that the Proiecture haue bene like to their height by cause the pillor is so muche dyminished it should be therefore the more cōmely to haue the greater Proiecture and yet shall those two wayes not differ muche one from the other But yet of these two wayes let vs take the moste faire I haue also sene this pillor so placed that it hath bene 7 Dyameters in heigthe where as he supported no other pillors but his owne Trabiacions So endeth the forme and measures of the Capitulum EPISTILIVM VPon the Capitall shal be layde or set Epistilium named also Trabes called in oure English tonge the Architraue the which is marked with Land is a modulus in height The which height ye shal deuide into 6. parts wherof Tenia to be the sixte part the other .5 partes is for Trabs So done vppō the Epistilium you shal set Zophorus being also a Modulus in height and is marked with M. vppon Zophorus shal be set Coronix being in height also a Modulus that height you shall deuid into .4 partes geue one part vnto Cimatiū vnder Corona marked with N. but the other side of it is called Tenia and geue likwise 2 parte vnto Corona marked with O. the fourth part which remaineth geue vnto Cymatiū ouer Corona which is marked with P. In Corona ye shal make Denticulos the which are made like teethe and their Proiectures shal be like vnto their heightes sauing only Corona which hangeth his height and halfe his height ouer And thus endeth the mesures of the pillor called Tuscana Now ye shal vnderstand that the pillor which standeth in the myddell is your ground plotte but the other whiche standeth by him is made vpon the self same measure but that it is otherwise garnished whiche garnishmentes bring other measures for them And as touching this pillor I shall begin from the lowest parte of the Pedestall being Tenia inferior deuiding his height into .8 partes Geue .3 pa●tes vnto Plinthus .4 partes geue also to Sima reuersa and the eighte parte remaineth for the small edge vpon Sima vpon the whiche is sette the bodye of the Pedestale also the vpper Tenia ye shall deuide his height into 5 partes geue 2 partes vnto Hypotrachelium and also .2 partes vnto Cymatium and the fift part geue vnto his edge at the toppe of the Pedestale nowe Basis or Base belonging to the sayde pillor is the height of a Modulus or half the thicknes of the pillor whose height ye shall deuide into .2 partes Geue Plinthus one parte and the second part deuide you into .3 partes Geue .2 partes vnto Torus and the third part deuide also into .3 partes Geue .2 partes to Sima and the third parte ye shall geue the edge vnder Sima So endeth the mesures of the Basis or Base vpon the which Base shal be set Scapus or the body of the pillor made after the maner order as before is mēcioned vpō the which shal be set the Capital the one Capital is like to the other sauing that it hath vpō Echinus a littel edge which seteth forth Plinthus with a more beautiful Proiecture As cōserning the Architraue or Epistiliū that is as before reherced a Modulus in height which height ye shal deuide into .6 partes Tenia occupieth the sixt part the other .5 partes ye shal deuid into .2 partes Geue one part vnto the half of Trochilus the other part is left for the flat square that resteth vpon the Capital so endeth the Epistiliū Now as touching the fries or Zophorus being also a Modulus in height as is before rehersed of the other is like vnto it but that this swellet houte the fourth part of a round compas that is drawen aboue square being the height and bredth of a modulus wherwith endeth Zophorus vpon the whiche shal be sette Coronix the one side is like vnto the other in the mesures but that in this side Cymatium is set vnder Corona and vpon the other side Tenia is set vnder Corona being of one heighte This done and finished according to this rule so endeth the mesures and garnishmente of