Vitruvius, the Ten Books on ArchitectureHarvard University Press, 1914 - 331 pagine |
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abacus analemma angles antae architect architraves arranged atrium ballistae bath beams bottom breadth bronze buildings built burnt brick capital cella centre CHAPTER colonnades colour columns constructed Corinthian coronae Ctesibius cymatium described diameter digits dining rooms divided Doric drum earth entasis equal exedrae face fastened finished fire firmament floor follows foot fourth Fra Giocondo front GREEK FEET Greeks call half heat height Hence hole houses intercolumniations intervals Ionic IONIC ORDER kind laid length lime machine marble metopes middle module moisture mortar nature oeci PALAESTRA peristyles pipes polished POMPEII principles projecting pronaos quarter rafters right and left roof round sand scaena shaft side solid space springs square stone stucco style stylobate symmetrical proportions tablinum temple termed in Greek tetrachord tetrastyle theatre thickness things third tion triglyphs upper vaultings vessel VITRUVIUS voice walls width
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Pagina 138 - Voice is a flowing breath of air, perceptible to the hearing by contact. It moves in an endless number of circular rounds, like the innumerably increasing circular waves which appear when a stone is thrown into smooth water...
Pagina 3 - It follows, therefore, that architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance.
Pagina 27 - ... 7. From these two points describe with your compasses intersecting arcs, and through their intersection and the centre let a line be drawn to the circumference of the circle to give us the quarters of south and north. Then, using a sixteenth part of the entire circumference of the circle as a diameter, describe a circle with its centre on the line to the south, at the point where it crosses the circumference, and put points to the right and left on the circumference on the south side, repeating...
Pagina 143 - ... and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up to the double octave. Then, having constructed niches in between the seats of the theatre...
Pagina 254 - As much water ran out as was equal in bulk to that of the silver sunk in the vessel. Then, taking out the mass, he poured back the lost quantity of water, using a pint measure, until it was level with the brim as it had been before. Thus he found the weight of silver corresponding to a definite quantity of water. 12. After this experiment, he likewise dropped the mass of gold into the full vessel and, on taking it out and measuring as before, found that not so much water was lost, but a smaller quantity:...
Pagina 184 - Room with oil press. be next to the kitchen; for in this situation it will be easy to deal with the fruit of the olive. Adjoining it should be the wine room with its windows lighted from the north. In a room with windows on any other quarter so that the sun can heat it, the heat will get into the wine and make it weak. 3. The oil room must be situated so as to get its light from the south and from warm quarters; for oil ought not to be chilled, but should be kept thin by gentle heat. In dimensions,...
Pagina 22 - Special pains should be taken that there be no easy avenue by which to storm the wall. The roads should be encompassed at steep points, and planned so as to approach the gates, not in a straight line, but from the right to the left; for as a result of this, the right hand side of the assailants, unprotected by their shields, will be next the wall. Towns should be laid out not as an exact square nor with salient angles, but in circular form, to give a view of the enemy from many points.
Pagina 146 - Having fixed upon the principal center, draw a line of circumference equivalent to what is to be the perimeter at the bottom, and in it inscribe four equilateral triangles, at equal distances apart and touching the boundary line of the circle, as the astrologers do in a figure of the twelve signs of the zodiac, when they are making computations from the musical harmony of the stars. Taking that one of these triangles whose side is nearest to the scaena, let the front of the scaena be determined by...
Pagina 73 - ... at his navel, the fingers and toes of his two hands and feet will touch the circumference of a circle described therefrom. And just as the human body yields a circular outline, so too a square figure may be found from it. For if we measure the distance from the soles of the feet to the top of the head...
Pagina 46 - Vesuvius. This substance, when mixed with lime and rubble, not only lends strength to buildings of other kinds, but even when piers of it are constructed in the sea, they set hard under water.