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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24

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Architecture: The Five Orders

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Commentary
Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24

Image. Tower of the Five Orders, Schools Quadrangle, Oxford. Photo by David Iliff, 9 March 2015, on Wikimedia. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0

For the significance and antecedents of this tower, see Tutorial 2: Mathematics and the mechanical arts: Architecture: the five orders, and in particularly the parallel treatment of the Tower of the Five Orders.