OP ARTS AND SCIENCES. 163 



.1225 : .128625 : .214375 : : 100 : 105 : 175. 



The preceding study of the dimensions and proportions of the 

 Temple had been completed, and the preceding tables drawn up in the 

 form in which they are here presented, when, on a further inspection 

 of them, certain facts appeared, opening the way to unexpected results, 

 which I shall now proceed to set forth briefly. 



It will have been noticed that the breadth of the Temple consists of 

 735 minutes of the diameter of the peristyle column : — 



.1225 X 735 = 90.0375 ; 



and it will be remembered that 7.35 is the measure of the diameter 

 itself. The correspondence is striking ; and the probability of its being 

 an undesigned coincidence is diminished, when we further consider 

 that in the ratio between the breadth of the Temple and the height of 

 the column and the heiglit of the Temple, 7:3:5, the same numbers 

 are repeated. 



Now, the lower diameter of the column is the most important dimen- 

 sion of the edifice. It regulates all the others, and its minute supplies the 

 unit of the structure. The choice of 7.35 for its measure, and of 735 

 for the number of the minutes of which the breadth of the Temple 

 was composed, and of 7, 3, and 5 for the ratio of breadth to heights, 

 seems to indicate that the architect must have had a special motive 

 leading him to select this series of digits to give the law to the propor- 

 tions of his building. 



It is obvious, at first glance, that 735 is composed of the first three 

 odd numbers ; and that peculiar virtues were supposed by the ancients 

 to be inherent in odd numbers, is a fact familiar to all students. 

 "Numero deus inpare gaudet," from Virgil's Eighth Eclogue (y. 76), 

 is a phrase as well known to classical readers as " There 's luck in odd 

 numbers, says Rory O'More," is to another class. 



