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    read as "Vitruvius Polio, and others" or, less likely, as "Vitruvius, Polio, and others". An inscription in Verona, which names a Lucius Vitruvius Cordo...
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    north-northwest is the elongated Mons Vitruvius mountain, and beyond is the valley where the Apollo 17 mission landed. The rim of Vitruvius is somewhat circular, but...
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    Research Program. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mons Vitruvius. Mons Vitruvius at The Moon Wiki LTO-43D4 Vitruvius — L&PI topographic map v t e...
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    The Proportions of the Human Figure after Vitruvius, or Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius. It is much better known as the Vitruvian...
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    Vitruvius Britannicus vol. 3, 1725 Houghton Hall in Norfolk; James Gibbs added the domes to Campbell's design Mereworth Castle in Kent, Vitruvius Britannicus...
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    Lucius Vitruvius Cerdo was an ancient Roman architect active in Verona. His only known work is the Arco dei Gavi, a 1st-century arch in Verona, Italy...
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    architecture is De architectura by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD. According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles...
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    are not described, but they are both made in bronze, just as Vitruvius specified. Vitruvius also mentioned the several automatons Ctesibius invented, and...
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    AD, and many sources give him the credit for its invention. However, Vitruvius was the first to describe this appliance in his De architectura (ca. 30–20...
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  • Marcus Vitruvius Vaccus (d. 330 BC) was a citizen of Fondi, and the leader of the revolt of the Fundani and Privernates against Rome in 330 BC. He was...
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    described in detail by the early-imperial Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius in the 1st century BC and by the 4th century AD officer and historian...
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    may be divided into Vitruvius skeptics, who do not offer credibility to Vitruvius when common-sense paradoxes occur, and Vitruvius fundamentalists, who...
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    Den Danske Vitruvius (English: The Danish Vitruvius) is a richly illustrated 18th-century architectural work on Danish monumental buildings of the period...
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    described by the first-century BC Roman architect Vitruvius (Vitruvius, De architectura, iii.3.3-10). Vitruvius named five systems of intercolumniation (Pycnostyle...
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    antiquity was rarely documented except in the writings of Vitruvius' treatise De architectura. Vitruvius served as an engineer under Julius Caesar during the...
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  • William Vitruvius Morrison (1794 – 16 October 1838) was an Irish architect, son and collaborator of Sir Richard Morrison. He was born at Clonmel, County...
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  • Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019). In the Lego universe, the wizard Vitruvius is blinded when he fails to protect a superweapon called the "Kragle"...
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  • Business, Vitruvius was blinded by him and made up a prophecy of the Special. During the confrontation in the Octan Tower's Think Tank, Vitruvius is beheaded...
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    viewed on end. "Vitruvian" refers to the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ("Vitruvius"), who wrote the oldest extant book on architecture, which describes...
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    of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. The famous sculptors were (in the Vitruvius order): Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas, and Timotheus, as well as hundreds...
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    this building type come from two major Greek sites: Olympia and Delphi. Vitruvius, through his text De architectura, is an important ancient source about...
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    as identified by the Roman writer, architect and engineer Vitruvius prior to 15 BC. Vitruvius noted that a "well made man" has an arm span equal to his...
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    Antias Valerius Maximus Varro Velleius Paterculus Verrius Flaccus Vergil Vitruvius Greek Aelian Aëtius of Amida Appian Arrian Cassius Dio Diodorus Siculus...
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    proportion of the column was 1:7 in Vitruvius, and in Palladio's illustration for Daniele Barbaro's commentary on Vitruvius), in Vignola's Cinque ordini d'architettura...
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    "is the amusement of Arcesilaus." Ctesibius's work is chronicled by Vitruvius, Athenaeus, Pliny the Elder, and Philo of Byzantium who repeatedly mention...
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    2012-06-06. Tom Clegg (2001-04-08). "Eureka!". Retrieved 2012-06-06. Vitruvius on Architecture, IX: Introduction: 9–12, translated into English and in...
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    four-volume Vitruvius Britannicus by Campbell, The series contains architectural prints of British buildings inspired by the great architects from Vitruvius to...
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    is De architectura, by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD. According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles...
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    Gnomon (section Vitruvius)
    when seen as a figurate number between square numbers.[citation needed] Vitruvius mentions the gnomon as "gnonomice" in the first sentence of chapter 3...
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    to light the room, which, as Vitruvius states, presents more the appearance of a basilica than of a triclinium. Vitruvius distinguishes four types of oecus:...
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