The Ten Books on Architecture, 4.8.3

Vitruvius  translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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3The proportions of the roof in the centre should be such that the height of the rotunda, excluding the finial, is equivalent to one half the diameter of the whole work. The finial, excluding its pyramidal base, should have the dimensions of the capital of a column. All the rest must be built in the symmetrical proportions described above.

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