Ten Books on Architecture

By Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus

Book Id: WPLBN0002953827
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File Size: 276.01 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Ten Books on Architecture
Author:	Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, History, Instruction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Ten Books on Architecture
Historic Publication Date:	1914
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Vitruvius Pollio, B. M. (1914). Ten Books on Architecture. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

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On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of the most important sources of modern knowledge of Roman building methods as well as the planning and design of structures, both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). He is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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History, Instruction, Science, Classics (antiquity), Ancient Texts