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ENTASIS (from Gr. vTelvety, to stretch a See also: column (q.v.), to correct the See also: optical illusion which produces an apparent hollowness in an extended straight See also: line
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It was referred to by See also: Vitruvius (iii
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3), and was first noticed in the columns of the Doric orders in See also: Greek temples by Allason in 1814, and afterwards measured and verified by Penrose
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It varies in different temples, and is not found in some: it is most pronounced in the See also: temple of See also: Jupiter Olympius, most delicate in the See also: Erechtheum
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The entasis is almost invariably introduced in the See also: spires of See also: English churches
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