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- Ionic order (6526 bytes)
2: ...]] of [[classical architecture]], the other two canonic orders being the [[Doric order|Doric]] and the...
4: ...he southwestern coastland and islands of [[Asia Minor]] settled by Ionian Greeks, where an Ionian dial...
6: Unlike the Greek Doric order, Ionic [[column]]s normally stand on a base (''but see illustration, le...
9: ...|thumb|right|An archaic Greek Ionic capital, in ''Nordisk familjebok'', 1910]]
10: ...e most often fluted: [[Inigo Jones]] introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his [[B... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...nt, an especially accurate one is called a [[chronometer]]. The clock in its modern form (24 hour clo...
3: [[Image:Montinari Milano.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A watch]]
11: The main purpose of a clock is not always to ''display'' the time.
14: ...h projects are developing CPUs based on [[asynchronous circuit]]s). Some computers also maintain time ...
27: The recurrent, periodic process (a [[metronome]]) is an [[oscillator]] and typically generates... - Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
23: ...tholic Faith resides withing Rome in what is now known as the [[Vatican city]].
27: ...[North African immigrants]] began arriving. These North Africans, mostly of Berber or Arab origin, cam...
40: ...hed characters with a rough storyline, called [[Canovaccio]].
45: The Two most well known types of Italian architecture are Roman and Pal...
49: ...d the principles defined by the Roman architect [[Vitruvius]] and his 15th-century disciple Leone Battista Al... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
3: ...3 BC]] – [[19 August]] [[14|AD 14]]), known earlier in his life as '''Gaius Octavius.''' Hi...
7: ...]] would be taken by all subsequent Emperors in honor of one of Rome's greatest rulers.
10: ...eached the rank of [[praetor]] and served as governor of [[Macedonia]] before dying when Octavian was ...
12: ...rning himself some military award, despite taking no part in the effort. The following year, at the ag...
18: ...a minor player in the politics of Rome, as he had not held a single public office at this point. But C... - Corinthian order (9508 bytes)
1: [[Image:CorinthianOrderPantheon.jpg|thumb|right|The Corinthian order ...
2: ... two more orders were added to the [[wikt:canon|canon]], the [[Tuscan order]] and the [[Composite orde...
4: ...n Order, illustrated in [[Claude Perrault]]'s ''[[Vitruvius]]'', 1684]]
6: ... of the Corinthian order for his translation of [[Vitruvius]], published in Paris, 1684 (''illustration, left...
8: ...an]] Corinthian capital, found at [[Ai-Khanoum]], northeastern [[Afghanistan]], [[2nd century BCE]].]] - Doric order (6699 bytes)
3: ...The Greek Doric order was the earliest of these, known from the [[7th century BC]] and reaching its ma...
9: ... A triglyph is centered above every column, with another (or sometimes two) between columns, though th...
11: ...g|thumb|left|100px|The Doric order of the [[Parthenon]]]]
19: ...hat show its details.)'' The contemporary [[Parthenon]], the largest temple in classical [[Athens]], i...
21: ...[[plinth]]s. In the Roman Doric mode, columns are not invariably fluted. - Architecture of Ancient Greece (9161 bytes)
3: ...d Greek), and from late written sources such as [[Vitruvius]] ([[1st century AD]]). This means that there is ...
5: ... seen as a genius, was treated in his lifetime as no more than a very valuable master tradesman.
7: ...dings of the Classical period such as the [[Parthenon]].
10: <td valign=up>[[Image:ac.pediment.jpg|thumb|324px|none|The upper part of the Greek National Academy bu...
11: <td valign=up>[[Image:ac.tholos.jpg|thumb|213px|none|The Tholos at Delphi]]</td> - Architecture (13950 bytes)
6: ...plication of a successful trial. The architect is not the sole important figure; he is merely part of ...
10: ...d to specific individual architects who remained anonymous. [[Guild]]s were formed by craftsmen to org...
14: ...mples can be found in areas where Muslims are a minority. Islamic architecture includes mosques, madra...
16: ...e cult of the individual had begun. But there was no dividing line between [[artist]], [[architect]] a...
18: ... of building. He therefore, cornered for himself another playing field - that of [[aesthetics]]. There... - Proportion (architecture) (4508 bytes)
7: ...proportions, human proportions, cosmological/astronomical proportions and orientations, and various as...
15: ...ers]] are largely known through the writings of [[Vitruvius]], particularly ''De Archetura'' (The Ten Books o...
19: ...ertainly aware of the work of Pythagoras, it does not appear that he took the harmonic divisions of th...
21: ...s possible that the originators of the design may not have been aware of the particular proportions th...
29: ...tually demonstrated that classical buildings were not rigidly defined and perfectly mathematical, but ...
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