De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer...

during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it...

and art, plays and poetry into Hebrew. His translation of Vitruvius' De architectura (1997) was considerably successful. He also published these translations:...

theater, Vitruvius described, in the 1st century BC, in his treatise De architectura, the ideal acoustics of theaters. He explained the use of brazen vases...

(de Architectura I.1.12) and referenced lost treatises on architecture written in Greek by Pythius as sources for his Latin architecture manual de Architectura...

BCE, primarily in the Roman Republic. He is best known for authoring De architectura (On Architecture), later called the Ten Books on Architecture, which...

However, Vitruvius was the first to describe this appliance in his De architectura (c. 30-20 BC). The aeolipile is considered to be the first recorded...

(reprint ed.). A&C Black. p. 23. ISBN 0567089436. Chisholm 1911. "Vitruvius, De architectura, Book IV, Chapter 7". Archived from the original on 2006-01-13. Retrieved...

engineer Vitruvius described a crane powered by human or animal labor in De architectura. Heavy equipment functions through the mechanical advantage of a simple...

aqueduct surveying and construction are noted by Vitruvius in his work De architectura (1st century BC). The general Frontinus gives more detail in his official...

reference to his work, including by Vitruvius (1st century BCE) in De Architectura. Encyclopædia Britannica: Ctesibius. "Greek physicist and inventor...

architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius. Different styles of classical...

determine layouts of homes and of common areas. In the classical work De Architectura, the Roman architect Vitruvius comments on how xenia was expressed...

(hot bathing room). The design of baths is discussed by Vitruvius in De architectura (V.10). Thermae, balneae, balineae, balneum and balineum may all be...

surviving text on architectural theories is the 1st century AD treatise De architectura by the Roman architect Vitruvius, according to whom a good building...

aedes design was appropriate are Jupiter, Sol and Luna. Vitruvius, De architectura 1.2.5; John E. Stambaugh, "The Functions of Roman Temples," Aufstieg...

the Ancient World. The architect's name is recalled in Vitruvius's De architectura. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chersiphron" . Encyclopædia Britannica...

contemporary knowledge. Vitruvius dedicates an entire chapter of his De architectura to timber, preserving many details. Pliny, while not a botanist, dedicated...

(1912), p. 198 & n. 1. Wissowa (1912), p. 108 and n. 1 citing Vitruvius De Architectura III 1, 5. Gros, Pierre (1997). "Iuppiter Tonans". In Steinby, Eva Margareta...

architect of the "vaulted temple at Delphi" is named by Vitruvius in De architectura Book VII as Theodorus Phoceus (not Theodorus of Samos, whom Vitruvius...

survive, such as the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder or the De architectura of Vitruvius. Sometimes authors will destroy their own works. On other...

libraries. His most celebrated finds are De rerum natura, the only surviving work by Lucretius, De architectura by Vitruvius, lost orations by Cicero such...

sons of Prometheus. Vitruvius (c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC), in his De architectura, calls Dorus the son of Hellen by the "nymph Phthia", while Dionysius...

mills were known to the Romans, being described by Vitruvius in his De Architectura of 25 BC. John Gerard's influential Herball (1597) called scolecium...

was illustrated in Cesare Cesariano's 1521 version of Vitruvius's De architectura, which he called "the rule of the German architects". The vesica piscis...

from Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. Vitruvius had claimed in his work De architectura that architecture is a science that can be comprehended rationally...

Sebastiano Serlio and Andrea Palladio, influenced by Vitruvius's De architectura from ancient Rome and the arithmetic of the Pythagoreans from ancient...

the Romans, particularly the 1st-century Roman architect Vitruvius (De architectura, books iii, 2 and 6). Among his opinions were that the Doric style...

Cicero, De Republica, i. 21, In Verrem, iv. 121. Valerius Maximus, i. 1. § 8. Pliny, Historia Naturalis, xxxv. 120. Vitruvius, De Architectura, vii. praef...

century BC. He refers to it as caeruleum and describes in his work De architectura how it was produced by grinding sand, copper, and natron, and heating...