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Title: The history of the arts and sciences of the antients : under the following heads, in three volumes : vol. I., Agriculture, commerce, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, the art military : vol. II., Art military, grammar, philology, rhetoric, poetry : vol. III., Poetry, history, eloquence, philosophy, civil law, metaphysics and physics, physic, botany, chymisty (sic), anatomy, mathematics, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, geography, and navigation
Year: 1768 (1760s)
Authors: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. MB (BRL) John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) MB (BRL)
Subjects: History, Ancient Humanities
Publisher: London : Printed for J. and F. Rivington, R. Baldwin, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, R. Horsfield, W. Johnston, W. Owen, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, B. Law, Z. Stuart, Robinson and Roberts, and Newbery and Carnan
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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OF ARCHITECTURE-TEMPLE VII. Plate g:Of Jupiter Olympius at Athens, rH E feventh kind of temple is called Hyp^ira, that is, open and expoled to the weather.; is a Decajlyle^ having ten pillars in front; and a^ycnojlyle, that is to fay, having its pillars clofe toich other, Vitruvius fays, there were no templesf that kind at Rome, and gives that of Jupiter)lympius as an example of it; which, he tells us,I the preface of his feventh book, was built attthens by Coflutius, a Roman archited. Paufanias;ys, it had pillars within it that formed a Periftyle,hich is effential to this kind of temple: but thiserifbyle could be reprefented on this plate only inle plan. Paufanias alfo relates the ceremony re-refented on the pediment; which is the prieflawbing the altar of Jupiter with a mixture of!hes brought from the PrytanfEum, and the waterf the river Alpheus -, this was done every year onle nineteenth of February. He tells us befides,lat there was an afcent to this altar of feveralleps.) ■45 V

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