ABC/181 - The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; translated by Joseph Gwilt

ABC/181

The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; translated by Joseph Gwilt

1 volume

A Book containing Ten Books on Marcus Vitruvius Polio's Architectural Work. Contents of the First Book: Introduction; What Architecture is and of the Education of the Architect; Things on which Architecture Depends; Branches of Architecture; Choice of Healthy Situations; Foundation of Walls and Towers; Distribution and Situation of Buildings within the Walls; Situations for Public Buildings. Second Book: Origin of Buildings; Origin of all Things according to the opinions of Philosophers; Bricks; Sand; Lime; Pozzolana; Stone Quarries; Kinds of Walls; Timber; Firs called Supernas and Infernas, and of the Apennines. Third Book: Design and Symmetry of Temples; Five Species of Temples; Foundations, and Columns and their Ornaments. Fourth Book: Origin of the Three Sorts of Columns, and the Corinthian Capital; Ornaments of Columns; Doric Proportions; Interior of the Cell and the Arrangement of the Pronaos; Different Aspects of Temples; Proportions of the Doors of Temples; Tuscan Proportions, Circular Temples and other Species; Altars to the Gods. Fifth Book: Forum and Basilica; Treasury, Prison and Curia; Theatre and its Healthy Situation; Harmony; Vases used in Theatres; Shape of the Theatre; Portico and other Parts of the Theatre; Three Sorts of Scenes and the Theatres of the Greeks; Porticos and Passages behind Scenes; Arrangement and Parts of Baths; Palaestra; Harbours and other Buildings in Water. Sixth Book: Situation of Buildings according to the Nature of different Places; Proportions of Private Buildings to suit the Nature of their Sites; Courts (Cavaedia); Courts (Atria), Wings or Aisles (Alae), the Tablium and the Peristylum; Triclinia, OEci, Exedrae, Pinacothecae, and their Dimensions; Grecian OEci; Propes Aspects of Different Sorts of Buildings; Forms of Houses suited to Different Ranks of Persons; Proportions of Houses in the Country; Arrangement and Parts of Grecian House; Strenght of Buildings. Seventh Book: Pavements; Tempering Lime for Stucco; Stucco Work; Stucco Work in Damp Places; Use of Painting in Buildings; Preparation of Marble for Plastering; Natural Colours; Vermilion and Quicksilver; Preparation of Vermilion; Artificial Colours; Blue and Burnt Yellow; White Lead, Verdigrease and Red Lead; Purple; Factitious Colours. Eight Book: Method of Finding Water; Rain Water; Nature of Various Waters; Qualities of Waters in certain Places; Means of Judging Water; Levelling and the Instruments used for that Purpose; Conducting Water. Ninth Book: Method of Doubling the Area of a Square; Method of Constructing a Right Angled Triangle; Method of detecting Silver when mixed with Gold; The Universe and the Planets; The Sun's Course through the Twelve Signs; Northern Constellations; Southern Constellations; Construction of Dials by the Analemma; Various Dials and their Inventors. Tenth Book: Machines and Engines; Machines of Draught; Another Sort of Machine of Draught; Ctesiphon's Contrivance for Removing Great Weights; Discovery of the Quarry whence Stone was procured for Temple of Diana in Ephesus; Principles of Mechanics; Engines for Raising Water; Sort of Tympanum and Water Mills; Water Screw; Machine of Ctesibius for Raising Water to a Considerable Height; Water Engines; Measuring a Journey; Cataluptae and Scorpions; Construction and Proportions of the Balista; Machines of Attack; Tortoise for Filling Ditches; Machines for Defence. Illustrations in text: Plan of Rome; Mount Athos, as proposed to be sculptured by Dinocrates; Plan of Athens; Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric Orders; A Forum; Prothyrum and Roman Shops; Specimen of Ancient Fresco Painting; View of an Aqueduct; The Earth, and the Signs of the Zodiac; Catapultae from the Trajan Column. At the end of the volume there is a suite of original engravings depicting scaled plans, elevations and sections of several Temple Designs; Types of Bricks; Diagram of the Winds; Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Orders.

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