The columns built by the ancient Greeks and Romans to support temples and other structures are tapered;

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The columns built by the ancient Greeks and Romans to support temples and other structures are tapered; they are thicker at the bottom than at the top. This certainly has an aesthetic purpose, but is there an engineering purpose as well? What might it be?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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