Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture (Bks. I-X)

Vitruvius

ISBN 10: 0486206459 / ISBN 13: 9780486206455

Edité par Dover Publications, 1960

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Synopsis :

The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion as well as the ancients' methods, materials, and aesthetics. Authoritative translation.

Présentation de l'éditeur: Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, Ph.D., LL.D. Show Excerpt your hands, my devotion continuing unchanged as I remembered him inclined me to support you. And so with Marcus Aurelius, Publius Minidius, and Gnaeus Cornelius, I was ready to supply and repair ballistae, scorpiones, and other artillery, and I have received rewards for good service with them. After your first bestowal of these upon me, you continued to renew them on the recommendation of your sister. 3. Owing to this favour I need have no fear of want to the end of my life, and being thus laid under obligation I began to write this work for you, because I saw that you have built and are now building extensively, and that in future also you will take care that our public and private buildings shall be worthy to go down to posterity by the side of your other splendid achievements. I have drawn up definite rules to enable you, by observing them, to have personal knowledge of the quality both of existing buildings and of those which are yet to be constructed. For in the following books I have disclosed a

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture (...
Éditeur : Dover Publications
Date d'édition : 1960
Reliure : Paperback
Illustrateur : Herbert Langford Warren
Etat : Very Good