And the reason that that was the model of beauty and of nature was because the decimal point had not been invented yet -- it wasn't the 16th century -- and everybody had to dimension a building in terms of fractions, so a room would be dimensioned as one-fourth of a facade; the structural dais of that might be dimensioned as 10 units, and you would get down to the small elements
その理由は 16世紀以前は－ 小数点が発明 されておらず－ 人々は分数を用いて 建築物の大きさを 測量するしか ありませんでした 結果として 部屋は建物の正面の1/4に― 区切られるように なったのです 演壇の構造は 10組のユニットに 区切られたのかもしれません 詳細部の要素も 分数の区分で－