I’m going to try to find a way around the apparent error in the data for the cistern of Hadrian’s library in the diagrams by Athanasios Angelopoulos. The specific issue is that if all of the proportions shown describe its measures inside the rim, 57.82 – (5.706 x 2) = 46.408 m, whereas it isContinue reading “Hadrian’s Library, Round 3”
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A First Look at Hadrian’s Library
Athansios Angelopoulos, author of Metron Ariston, has provided us with plans and data for (among other things) Hadrian’s Library. I have not looked at much the material carefully yet, but already there may be several things worth mention. Says Wikipedia, “Hadrian’s Library was created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of theContinue reading “A First Look at Hadrian’s Library”
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