“It was only within comparatively recent times that several refinements in Greek architecture… such as the slight entasis of the columns, the greater size of the corner columns, and the convex curve of the stylobate were discovered.”

—  Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

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