Identifier: historyofartssci01roll (find matches)
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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e front,o render the edifice more majedic. The fourths the tcm^-le of Jupiter Olympius at Athens, ofhe Corinthian order. Pifilbatus had begun it, but vitr. ibid,t remained unfinifhed after his death, upon account)f the troubles in which the republic was involved.VIore than three hundred years alter, Antiochus Epiphanes, ,38 OF ARCHITECTURE. Liv. 1.4I Epiphanes, king of Syria, took upon him to de-^». 20. fj.^y i)^Q expences that were necefTary for finifliingthe body of the temple, which was very large, andthe columns of the portico. Coflutius, a Romancitizen, who had made himfelf famous ?mongftthe architects, was chcfen to execute this greatwork. He acquired gi eat honour by it, this pilebeing efteemed to have very few equal to it in mag-nificence. The fame ColTurius was one of the firfl:amongft the Romans who buiit in th<r Grecian tafte.He gives me occafion to fpeak o? feveral edifices atRome, which often employed Gieek architects, andthereby in fome meafure to relume my plan. )Jn
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OF ARCHITECTURE. 13^ (In order to render this article upon architefturethe more ufeful and entertaining, ic was thoughtpropel CO add here the following plates of thefevendifferent kinds of ancient temples, with a brief de-f r -stion of each of them. The reader may obfervetha- ail the different orders of architecture are in^-troduced m them. TEMPLE I. Plate 3.0/ Fortune. THIS kind of temples wTre called Ani^e orPa- Jiat^^ becaufe they had no pillars at theirangles, but only pilafters, which the ancients calledAntje or ParuitaijE. The examples Vitruvius givesor rhern are three teinples of Fortune at Rome,efpeciaily that near the Porta CoUina. As he doesnot dcfcribe it j)articuiarly, Mr. Perrault thoughtproper to make it of the Tufcan order, which fuitsthe moft fimple of all tempes, and an Arajlyle^that is to fay, one having few pillars. There was anccefilty for giving it a doubie pediment upon ac-count of its having tsvo different coverings, that ofthe temple, and that of the pornco, fu

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