Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
From Vitruvius
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
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