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The whole body of antient and modern architecture: : comprehending what has been said of it by these ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. Also an account of architects and architecture, in an historical, and etymological explanation of certain terms particularly used by architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues. The three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita the latter. Published for the benefit of builders, limners, and painters