ASPECT

In Architecture, the direction towards the point of the compa in which a building is placed. The aspect us is also used by Vitruvius to denote the external distribution of a temple. Thus he describes seven sorts of aspects of temples: that in Antis, the Prostyle, Am pliiprostyle, Peripteral, Dipteral, Pseudo dipteral, and ilvpetnral; under which words they are severally described Aspect. In Astrology, the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from two planets, and meeting at the earth, and which are supposed to po e some natural influence. (iice Astrology.) Aspect. In Hort. In speaking of the inclination oi the surface of the ground, the word aspect is us reference to tne sun, as the word exposure is with reference to the wind. Hence, a garden, the so which slopes to the east, has an eastern aspect, and also an eastern exposure; but a garden on a flat surfs tered by plantations on the east, west, and north, cannot he said to have any aspect, while it has a southern exposure, being open to the winds of the south, though from those blowing from the other cardinal points of the compa . [s. 108]