The Ten Books on Architecture, 3.1.9

Vitruvius  translated by Joseph Gwilt

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9If it therefore appear, that numbers had their origin from the human body, and proportion is the result of a due adjustment of the different parts to each other, and to the whole, they are especially to be commended, who, in designing temples to the gods, so arrange the parts that the whole may harmonize in their proportions and symmetry.

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