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Pantheon roof pitch.
The pantheon is one of the best preserved monuments of ancient rome.
Roof pitch refers to the amount of rise a roof has compared to the horizontal measurement of the roof called the run.
Sometimes pitch is also expressed in.
At midday the sunlight hits the metal grille above the door filling the.
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While modern day visitors to rome s pantheon must be satisfied with gazing up at the oculus from below as little as 40 years ago it was possible to stand on the roof of this millennia old monument and peer through god s eye from above.
Roof pitch or slope is a measure of vertical rise to horizontal run expressed in inches per foot.
During the reign of emperor hadrian features.
Pantheum from greek πάνθειον pantheion temple of all the gods is a former roman temple now a catholic church basilica di santa maria ad martyres or basilica of st.
The gold colored grids below are golden rectangles with a width to height ratio of exactly 1 618 to 1.
Mary and the martyrs in rome italy on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by marcus agrippa during the reign of augustus 27 bc 14 ad.
When the pantheon was built the only source of light was the oculus in the centre of the dome.
Most believe however that the hole in its roof is a testament to rome s warm climate.
The photo below illustrates the golden ratio proportions that appear in the height of the roof support beam and in the decorative rectangular sections that run horizontally across it.
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The opening measures 8 2m in diameter and is also referred to as the eye of the pantheon.
Why the 2 000 year old pantheon in rome might actually be a giant sundial.
Therefore the pitch of the roof should match the pitch of the pediment 3 4 14 4 reduced to lowest terms 1 7 7 2 which equals a slope of 23 611 or an inclination angle of 13 28481 degrees.
A clever lighting trick is played out on 21 april the founding date of rome.