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...

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...

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 (ca. 30–20 BC). The aeolipile is considered to be the first recorded...

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

(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...

(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...

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

BC when the ancient Roman engineer Vitruvius described a crane in De architectura when it was powered via human or animal labor. Heavy equipment functions...

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...

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...

Letter. Vitruvius uses the word "xenia" once, near the end of Book 6 of De Architectura, in a note about the decorative paintings, typically of food, located...

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

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...

described by the first-century BC Roman architect Vitruvius (Vitruvius, De architectura, iii.3.3-10). Vitruvius named five systems of intercolumniation (Pycnostyle...

(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...

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

Alberti between 1443 and 1452. Although largely dependent on Vitruvius's De architectura, it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian...

while writing his work, Mechanical Syntaxis, as well as Vitruvius in De architectura. In the first century BC, the ancient Greek mathematician Hero of Alexandria...

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

(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...

later, the Roman engineer and architect Vitruvius contended in his De architectura that gravity is not dependent on a substance's weight but rather on...

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...

passage in Vitruvius's chapter on town planning in his On Architecture (De architectura) seems to be based on this missing book. The emphasis is on planning...

Canon Vitruvius De architectura Renaissance Filippo Brunelleschi Leon Battista Alberti De pictura De re aedificatoria Piero della Francesca De prospectiva...

of Vitruvius. Vitruvius explains some of the changes in Book 6 of De architectura; architectural theorist Simon Weir has explained the context around...

author Vitruvius listed all the known types of dials in Book IX of his De Architectura, together with their Greek inventors. All of these are believed to...

Clairaut, "Du systeme du monde, dans les principes de la gravitation universelle", in "Histoires (& Memoires) de l'Academie Royale des Sciences" for 1745 (published...

slopes may be due to volcanic activity, as at Mount Etna. In Book II of De architectura, the architect Vitruvius (c. 80–70 BC –?) reported that fires had once...