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The Ten Books on Architecture

by Vitruvius Pollio

Professional & Technical » Architecture

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This is a remarkable work by Vitruvius Pollio that was created during the classical period and that influenced greatly the further development of the architecture. A number of outstanding sciences of Renaissance referred in their works to this book. The book includes not only data on architecture but also a great number of digressions from this topic. For example, here it is possible to find the paragraphs about different kinds of contemporary art which are also as valuable as the information about architecture ingenuously. When talking about the architecture itself, the author pays great attention to the construction of siege and defend devices, for instance, catapults and tortoises. The book also contains information about divining water and using building materials.

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...[Illustration: THE EUSTYLE TEMPLE OF VITRUVIUS COMPARED WITH THE TEMPLEOF TEOS]7. The rule of this arrangement may be set forth as follows. If atetrastyle is to be built, let the width of the front which shall havealready been determined for the temple, be divided into eleven parts anda half, not including the substructures and the projections of thebases; if it is to be of six columns, into eighteen parts. If anoctastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided intotwenty-four parts and a half. Then, whether the temple is to betetrastyle, hexastyle, or octastyle, let one of these parts be taken, and it will be the module. The thickness of the columns will be equal toone module. Each of the intercolumniations, except those in the middle, will measure two modules and a quarter. The middle intercolumniations infront and in the rear will each measure three modules. The columnsthemselves will be nine modules and a half in height. As a result ofthis division, the intercolumniations...

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a7med3atif

09 Nov 2010 21:57:43

This book contains an immense number of digressions from architecture that are perhaps of greater interest than the actual architectural content

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