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Active in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books. It remained the standard manual for architects into the medieval period. The topics which Vitruvius considered essential are diverse, including aspects of design as well as geometry and engineering. In the nineteenth century, the English architect and author Joseph Gwilt (1784 1863) won greater acclaim for the books he published than for the buildings he designed. His most celebrated achievement, The Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), is also reissued in this series. Gwilt's...

Vitruvs Abhandlung ist die einzige vollstandige Darstellung antiker Architektur, die erhalten ist. In seinem Lehrbuch und zugleich Nachschlagewerk wurden auch Baumaterialien, Farben, Wasserversorgung, Astronomie, Zeitmessung und die Herstellung von Bau- und Kriegsmaschinen abgehandelt.

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