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A decorative initial letter 'L' is depicted. INDEX

A decorative initial 'L' is depicted. In the first book of L. Vitruvius Pollio, in which he discourses on the duties of the architect, the limitations of the art, as well as the walls and the divisions of the area, these things are contained:
On the training of architects. Chapter 1.
From what things architecture consists. Chapter 2.
On the parts of architecture. Chapter 3.
On the election of a healthy site. Chapter 4.
On the division of works which are within the walls, and their disposition so that the harmful blasts of the winds are avoided. Chapter 5.
On the site of sacred buildings in cities and outside. Chapter 6.

In the second book, in which it is treated of the materials and resources from which, when collected, buildings are perfected through the reasons of the material, these are contained:
1 On the origin and principle of architecture. Chapter 1.
On the principles of things according to the opinions of philosophers. Chapter 2.
On bricks. Chapter 3. On sand. Chapter 4.
On lime. Chapter 5.
On pozzolanic powder and the rest. Chapter 6.
On stone quarries. Chapter 7.
On the genres of construction and their qualities, methods, and places. Chapter 8.
On the thickness of walls and brickwork. Chapter 9.
On the felling of timber. Chapter 10.
On fir trees from above and below, with a description of the Apennines. Chapter 11.

In the third book, in which he discourses on sacred buildings, these things are contained:
1 On the disposition and symmetries of sacred buildings, and the measurement of the human body. Chapter 1.
On the five species of buildings. Chapter 2.
On foundations, columns, and their ornamentation and architraves. Chapter 3.

In the fourth book, in which it is treated of the proportion of Doric and Corinthian columns, these are contained:
1 On the ornaments of columns and their origin. Chapter 2.
On the three genres of columns and their origin and invention. Chapter 1.
On the Doric method. Chapter 3.
On the interior of the cella and the distribution of the portico. Chapter 4.
On the constitution of regions in buildings. Chapter 5.
On the reasons for sacred doors and door-frames. Chapter 6.
On the Tuscan reasons for sacred buildings. Chapter 7.
On the arrangement of the altars of the gods. Chapter 8.