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Dell' Architettura Di M. Vitruvio Pollione, Volume 1 (Italian Edition) by Vitruvius Pollio, 2010-02-10
Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture by Indra Kagis McEwen, 2002-10-04
The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi by George Hersey, 1988-02-10
Fundamentals of Vacuum Tubes by Austin Vitruvius Eastman, 1941
An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius by Vitruvius Pollio, 2010-03-07
Vitruvius and the Greek Stage by Edward Capps, 2010-05-25
An Abridgment of the Architecture of VitruviusContaining a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Vitruvius Pollio, 2009-10-04
The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, in ten books by Vitruvius Pollio, Joseph Gwilt, 2010-08-09
Vitruvius, the ten books on architecture: translated by Morris Hicky Morgan ; with illustrations and original designs prepared under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren [1919] by Vitruvius Pollio, 2009-05-01
Vitruvius On Architecture by Frank Granger, 2008-11-04
Vitruvius Scoticus by William Adam, 1993-04
Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870
Vitruvius: Architect and Engineer (Inside the Ancient World) by A Mackay, 1985-12
The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (1874) by Vitruvius Pollio, 2009-08-15

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Vitruvius
Extracts from architectural texts of Marcus vitruvius Pollio, c 25 BCE.
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Extractions: Authors born between 200 BCE and 00 CE Jesus Ben Sirach Sima Qian Tiruvalluvar Lucretius [ Vitruvius ] Jesus of Nazareth Epictetus Click Up For A Summary Of Each Author Contents Introduction Connections in Architecture The Education of an Architect On Budget Overruns ... Source Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (active around 25 BCE) wrote ten books on architecture. Other that what can be deduced from these books, very little is known of his life. He lived at some time between the death of Julius Caesar and the battle of Actium, probably in the reign of Augustus. The dedication of his books indicates that Augustus was the patron of Vitruvius, so that the books were probably presented in about 25 BCE. From the text one can gather that Vitruvius was a creative person with wide-ranging interests. He clearly took pride in architecture as serving the needs of man and as providing an important expression of human endeavor. Vitruvius aims to demonstrate the excellence of the science that he possesses. He notes that a s in other arts, an architect must constantly keep in view the intention of the work and the material used to express that intention. He must also be versed in history, law, moral philosophy and physics. Vitruvius presents architecture as a thoroughly humanistic art
Translation Of The Text Accompanying Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man
vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows that is that 4
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Extractions: Text accompanying Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man Vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows that is that 4 fingers make 1 palm, and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man; and these measures he used in his buildings. If you open your legs so much as to decrease your height 1/14 and spread and raise your arms till your middle fingers touch the level of the top of your head you must know that the centre of the outspread limbs will be in the navel and the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle.
Vitruvian Man - Aiwaz.net
A passage from Roman architect vitruvius (Marcus vitruvius Pollio), describing the perfect human form in geometrical terms, was the source of inspiration
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Extractions: Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1513, dim. 25 x 19.2 cm A passage from Roman architect Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio), describing the perfect human form in geometrical terms, was the source of inspiration for numerous renaissance artists. Only one of these, the incomparable Leonardo da Vinci, was successful in correctly illustrating the proportions outlined in Vitruvius' work De Architectura , and the result went on to become the most recognized drawings in the world, and came to represent the standard of human physical beauty. It was the version produced by Leonardo da Vinci, whose vast knowledge of both anatomy and geometry made him uniquely suited to the task. De Architectura established a system of ratios for the construction of 'perfect' buildings that exhibited Vitruvius' three necessary principles of durability, usefulness, and beauty. Vitruvius' s system proved a durable one, helping to spark a renewal of architectural interest in the renaissance. As Vitruvius believed that good architecture was in essence a continuation of the laws of nature, he demonstrated that his system applied to the formation of natural structures, including man.
The Golden Crown (Sources)
In this tract he described an accurate balance for weighing things in air and in water, inspired by vitruvius s account of Archimedes golden crown problem.
http://math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Crown/Vitruvius.html

Extractions: D E ARCHITECTURA by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. first century BC B OOK IX, I NTRODUCTION In the case of Archimedes, although he made many wonderful discoveries of diverse kinds, yet of them all, the following, which I shall relate, seems to have been the result of a boundless ingenuity. Hiero , after gaining the royal power in Syracuse, resolved, as a consequence of his successful exploits, to place in a certain temple a golden crown which he had vowed to the immortal gods. He contracted for its making at a fixed price, and weighed out a precise amount of gold to the contractor. At the appointed time the latter delivered to the king's satisfaction an exquisitely finished piece of handiwork, and it appeared that in weight the crown corresponded precisely to what the gold had weighed. But afterwards a charge was made that gold had been abstracted and an equivalent weight of silver had been added in the manufacture of the crown. Hiero, thinking it an outrage that he had been tricked, and yet not knowing how to detect the theft, requested Archimedes to consider the matter. The latter, while the case was still on his mind, happened to go to the bath, and on getting into a tub observed that the more his body sank into it the more water ran out over the tub. As this pointed out the way to explain the case in question, he jumped out of the tub and rushed home naked, crying with a loud voice that he had found what he was seeking; for he as he ran he shouted repeatedly in Greek
Welcome To Vitruvius Specialists In Marble, Slate, Granite, Limestone, Pietre Du
Welcome to vitruvius specialists in Marble, Slate, Granite, Limestone. vitruvius also specialise in Pietre Dure, Scagliola, Florentine mosaic, inlaid marble
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S.S. Vitruvius
The S.S. vitruvius was the second concrete ship built by McCloskey and Company in Tampa, Florida. She was launched in December of 1943 and used in the sugar
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Extractions: Home History Ships Guestbook ... YOGN 82 Breakwaters Powell River Kiptopeke The S.S. Vitruvius was the second concrete ship built by McCloskey and Company in Tampa, Florida. She was launched in December of 1943 and used in the sugar trade with Cuba. In March of 1944, the Vitruvius and the S.S. David O. Saylor set sail for Liverpool, England to join a fleet of ships to participate in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. On July 16, 1944, the S.S. Vitruvius and Saylor were partially sunk to form the "Gooseberry" breakwater off the coast of Normandy. The S.S. Vitruvius lies off the coast of Normandy, France. At the time of her sinking, she was still visible above the water. How much is left of her now is unknown. None available. However, since all the McCloskey ships are identical, you can see photos of the other ships to see what theVitruvius looked like.
ONTWERPSYSTEMEN EN VITRUVIUS TERMINOLOGIE. *)
Translate this page Veel van onze kennis over klassieke bouwkunde komt uit vitruvius De Architectura, het enige volledig overgebleven architecten-geschrift .
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Extractions: M.C. Kosian "Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry, Propriety, and Economy.", aldus Vitruvius I.II.1. Vitruvius gebruikt hier termen, waarvan enkelen ons bekend in de oren klinken: "Order", "Symmetry" en "Economy" bijvoorbeeld. Voor ontwerpstudies naar klassieke architectuur is het gebruik van onze huidige definitie van die termen echter een handicap; veel van onze termen komen qua definitie niet meer overeen met de klassieke betekenis, gezien wat er in de klassieke tijd aan bouwwerken is neergezet. Zo is ons begrip "Orde" een puur stilistische aangelegenheid: we spreken van een Dorische Orde, een, Ionische Orde etc., zonder dat dit een verdere invloed heeft op het ontwerp dan het gebruik van specifieke ornamenten. Ook onze betekenis van "Symmetrie" is beperkter dan de klassieke betekenis; ons begrip symmetrie is praktisch altijd spiegel- symmetrie, maar een gebouw dat door Vitruvius zelf als schoolvoorbeeld van zuivere architectuur wordt genoemd, het Erechtheion in Athene is alles behalve symmetrisch. Bij bestudering van klassieke architectuur moeten we dus uitgaan van een andere inhoud van de termen uit Vitruvius I.II.1. Mijn inziens zouden we Vitruvius I.II.1 eigenlijk als volgt moeten lezen: "Klassieke architectuur is afhankelijk van Interne proporties, Externe proporties, "Handed-ness", en (Administratieve) calculatie." Deze begrippen staan niet los van elkaar, maar vormen een hecht geheel.
Vitruvius â Infoplease.com
vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been
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Extractions: google_ad_client = 'pub-1894504138907931'; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; google_ad_format = '120x240_as'; google_ad_type = 'text'; google_ad_channel =''; google_color_border = ['336699','B4D0DC','DFF2FD','B0E0E6']; google_color_bg = ['FFFFFF','ECF8FF','DFF2FD','FFFFFF']; google_color_link = ['0000FF','0000CC','0000CC','000000']; google_color_url = ['008000','008000','008000','336699']; google_color_text = ['000000','6F6F6F','000000','333333']; Encyclopedia Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) (vitr OO u s) [ key , fl. late 1st cent. B.C. and early 1st cent. A.D. , Roman writer, engineer, and architect for the Emperor Augustus. In his one extant work, De architectura (c.40
Harvard University Press: On Architecture, I : Books 1-5 By Vitruvius
On Architecture, I Books 15 by vitruvius, published by Harvard University Press.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L251.html

Extractions: Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.
The Rolling Ball Web - Clocks - RB Display
The ball mechanism is described by vitruvius in this way vitruvius Odometer A Machine for Measuring Mileage that the Roman Engineer Described but
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Extractions: By David M. MacMillan et. al. In addition to, or entirely instead of participating in the timekeeping functions of a clock, rolling balls can also be used to indicate the time. In this function, they serve essentially as calculating devices, transforming by mechanical mathematics the steady time signal of the clock into human-readable time. [Note: Vitruvius' odometer is not a clock, of course. But given the possible historical links between it and subsequent Islamic clocks I couldn't think of a better place to put it for the present.] The Roman architect and engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, known commonly as Vitruvius, described a ball mechanism in Book X, Chapter 9 of his work de Architectura (also known as The Ten Books on Architecture The complete text of Vitruvius is online on Bill Thayer's outstanding LacusCurtius site in Latin, English, and (partially) French. The site is at:
Pollio Vitruvius - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Pollio Vitruvius
Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pollio vitruvius. Pollio vitruvius. Information about Pollio vitruvius in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Pollio Vitruvius
Vitruvian Man
Article by Robert M. Place on the drawing by Leonardo da Vinci called Vitruvian Man,
http://thealchemicalegg.com/VitruviusN.html

Extractions: The pen and ink drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, depicting a man fitting his body to a circle and a square by adjusting the position of his arms and legs, is probably the most famous drawing in the world - judging by the fact that I see it in advertisements and worked into logos for holistic health centers and it is even the wallpaper design for my Windows main page. However, few people know its name or the secrets that it contains. It is called Vitruvian Man. Vitruvius was an ancient Roman architect who wrote a series of ten books on architecture - one of the few collections of books of its type that survived into the Renaissance. In the third volume, which is on the proportions of temples, he states that these buildings should be based on the proportions of man, because the human body is the model of perfection. He justifies this by stating that the human body with arms and legs extended fits into the perfect geometric forms, the circle, and the square. I believe that beauty in itself is a greater mystical revelation than any system of symbols or of correspondences. The one criticism I have of Tarot decks in general, modern or other, is that at times they lack beauty. Sometimes the creators make the same mistake as Cesariano and try to make reality fit their ideas instead of discovering them in reality. This is not to say that there is no underlying wisdom in their assertions, but only that at times their solutions are less than satisfactory.
Ten Books On Architecture By Vitruvius - Project Gutenberg
Download the free eBook Ten Books on Architecture by vitruvius.
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Extractions: Online Book Catalog Quick Search Author: Title Word(s): EText-No.: Advanced Search Recent Books Top 100 Offline Catalogs ... Main Page Project Gutenberg needs your donation! More Info Did you know that you can help us produce ebooks by proof-reading just one page a day? Go to: Distributed Proofreaders Help Read online Bibliographic Record Creator Vitruvius Title Ten Books on Architecture Language English EText-No. Release Date Base Directory /files/20239/ Formats Available For Download Format Encoding Â¹ Compression Size Download Links Plucker none unknown main site HTML none 721Â KB main site mirror sites HTML zip 12.94Â MB main site mirror sites Plain text iso-8859-1 none 598Â KB main site mirror sites Plain text iso-8859-1 zip 211Â KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii none 598Â KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii zip 211Â KB main site mirror sites Â¹ If you need a special character set, try our online recoding service
VITRUVIUS De Architectura Libri X
This site is about the ten books of architecture as written by Marcus vitruvius Pollio in the first century AD, during the reign of the Roman emperor
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Vitruvius - Vicipaedia
Marcus vitruvius Pollio (? 26 a.C.n.) Romanus architectus et scriptor Decem libri in Latina lingua http//www.thelatinlibrary.com/vitruvius.html
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Extractions: Salire ad: navigationem quaerere Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (? - 26 a.C.n.) Romanus architectus et scriptor fuit. Architectus, munitor machinatorque qui eadem Augusti aetate vixit. Miles in Gallia Hispania Graeciaque C. Iulio Caesare duce fuit. Is autem postquam bellum civile confectum est, librum de Architectura ad Augustum missum scripsit. Ille de Architectura liber solus nobis Antiquitate traditus est. Multi ergo architecti librum eius studuerunt. E Vitruvio, ut rectus et confectus architectus sit, studendum est ius, geometria, medicina etc. Vitruvii de architectura firmitas utilitas venustas ... Archimedis Cochlea http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/vitruvius.html Liber primus, secundus, tertius, quartus, septimus octauusque in Latina et Gallica lingua: http://agoraclass.fltr.ucl.ac.be/concordances/intro.htm#vit Vicifons opus nominatum Vitruvius habet. Vitruvius in linea (ut dicunt): http://www.cesr.univ-tours.fr/architectura/Traite/Auteur/Vitruve.asp Receptum de " http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius
Alpha Rho Chi - Professional Fraternity For Architecture And The Allied Arts
APX is the national, coed, professional fraternity for architecture and the allied arts. Welcome to the house of the vitruvius chapter at PSU.
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Vitruvius: Writing The Body Of Architecture:: Books At Arcspace.com
vitruvius s De architectura, consisting of ten volumina, or scrolls, is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity,
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Extractions: Buy the book at amazon.com through arcspace, and a small portion of the proceeds from your purchase will go to support our efforts to keep you informed. More Book Reviews Vitruvius's De architectura , consisting of ten volumina, or scrolls, is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual truth of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work's meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C.
Who Was Vitruvius?
The author of what is thought to be the first book on architecture was a first century BCE Roman architect named Marcus vitruvius Pollio.
http://www.vitruvian.org/vitruvius/

Extractions: The author of what is thought to be the first book on architecture was a first century BCE Roman architect named Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. His De Architectura Libri Decem (Ten Books on Architecture) carefully described existing practices, not only in the design and construction of buildings, but also in what are today thought of as engineering disciplines. His books include such varied topics as the manufacture of building materials and dyes (material science), machines for heating water for public baths (chemical engineering), amplification in ampitheaters (acoustics), and the design of roads and bridges (civil engineering). His writing is prescriptive and gives direct advice: "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." Leonardo da Vinci drew Proportional Study of Man in the Manner of Vitruvius in about 1487 CE as an illustration for a book about Vitruvius. The drawing depicts a "man of perfect symmetry" as described by the architect. What better subject to be the namesake of a Masonic Lodge? The first published author on architecture, who had a vision of what comprised the ideal man.
Vitruvius - Mathematics And The Liberal Arts
Shows how the aesthetic and perceptual ideals of Greek and Roman times were relayed by vitruvius and later by Alberti and others.
http://mtcs.truman.edu/~thammond/history/Vitruvius.html

Extractions: To expand search, see The Roman Empire . Laterally related topics: Frotinus and Boethius (Ancius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boetius) The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Cox, Steven J. The shape of the ideal column. Math. Intelligencer
Vitruvius's Theories Of Beauty
vitruvius s theories of proportion in relation to the body.
http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/vitruvius/proportion.html

Extractions: Home Learning Bodies of Knowledge Vitruvius's theories of beauty SEARCH Enlarge Find more Vitruvian images in the Vitruvius Gallery Is it possible to identify a universal sense of beauty - a definition of beauty that can be applied to all people at all times? Don't our ideas of beauty shift and fight and transform themselves in different times and spaces? This image is by Marcus Vitruvius, the famous Ancient Roman architect. Vituvius's most famous work is entitled Ten Books on Architecture, and was written in approximately 20-30 BC. It is the only text on the subject of architecture to survive antiquity. It was also one of the first texts in history to draw the connection between the architecture of the body and that of the building. Vitruvius believed that an architect should focus on three central themes when preparing a design for a building: firmitas (strength), utilitas (functionality), and venustas (beauty). But the theory of venustas (or beauty) is a very complicated one. Vitruvius thought that a timeless notion of beauty could be learnt from the 'truth of nature', that nature's designs were based on universal laws of proportion and symmetry. He believed that the body's proportions could be used as a model of natural proportional perfection. He wrote of the way ancient scholars examined many examples of 'well shaped men' and discovered that these bodies shared certain proportions. He showed that the 'ideal' human body fitted precisely into both a circle and a square, and he thus illustrated the link that he believed existed between perfect geometric forms and the perfect body. In this way, the body was seen as a living rulebook, containing the fixed and faultless laws set down by nature.

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