According to Vitruvius, a votive crown for a temple had been made for King Hiero II, who had supplied the pure gold to be used, and Archimedes was asked to determine whether some silver had been substituted by the dishonest goldsmith.

According to the Roman architect Vitruvius, it was built by Satyros and Pytheus who wrote a treatise about it ; this treatise is now lost.

According to Howard Colvin, " Burlington's mission was to reinstate in Augustan England the canons of Roman architecture as described by Vitruvius, exemplified by its surviving remains, and practised by Palladio, Scamozzi and Jones.

According to a story told by Vitruvius, Hiero suspected he was being cheated by the goldsmith to whom he had supplied the gold to make a votive crown for a temple.

According to one text the water-mill was first made in 555 by Belisarius, according to another they were known to Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius.

According to Vitruvius, the temperature and humidity of domed tepidaria could be regulated by raising or lowering bronze discs located under the oculus.

According to Vitruvius ( vii., preface ) he lived during the age of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by whom he was crucified as the punishment of his criticisms on the king ; but this account should probably be rejected as a fiction based on Zoilus ' reputation.

According to the testimony of Vitruvius and Varro, Andronicus of Cyrrhus designed the structure.

According to Leonardo's preview in the accompanying text, written in mirror writing, it was made as a study of the proportions of the ( male ) human body as described in Vitruvius.

According to Vitruvius ' de Architectura, he eventually moved to the island of Kos off the coast of Asia Minor and set up a school of astrology there, under the patronage of the king of Egypt.

According to Vitruvius ( Book IV. 7 ), the Etruscan type of temples ( as, for example, at Portonaccio near Veio ) had three cellae, side by side, conjoined by a double row of columns on the facade.

According to Leonardo's notes in the accompanying text, written in mirror writing, it was made as a study of the proportions of the ( male ) human body as described in a treatise by the Ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, who wrote that in the human body:

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to Tibetan Buddhist literature, the age of first Buddha was 1, 000, 000 years and height was 100 cubits while 28th Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama ( 563BC – 483BC ) lived 80 years and his height was 20 cubits.

According to an article in the New York Times, however, his actual height was.

According to Strabo ( 1. 1. 9 ), Seleucus was the first to state that the tides are due to the attraction of the Moon, and that the height of the tides depends on the Moon's position relative to the Sun.

According to art critic Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and " longing for concision and grace ".

According to the standard reference text on nuclear weapons effects published by the U. S. Department of Defense, " The peak electric field ( and its amplitude ) at the Earth's surface from a high-altitude burst will depend upon the explosion yield, the height of the burst, the location of the observer, and the orientation with respect to the geomagnetic field.

According to the New York Better Business Career Services website, the preferred dimensions for a male model are a height of 5 ft 11 in ( 180 cm ) to 6 ft 2 in ( 188 cm ), a waist of and a chest measurement of.

According to Plutarch, Cleopatra took flight with her ships at the height of the battle and Antony followed her.

According to Njáls saga, he was a powerful, athletic man " capable of jumping his own height in full body armour, both back and front ".

According to Norman Jewison, the film — released at the height of the Cold War — had considerable impact in both Washington and Moscow.

* According to the building code of Hyderabad, India, a high-rise building is one with four floors or more, or one 15 metres or more in height.

According to reports, it is approximately 15 feet in height, dressed in what many describe as " white lace ".

According to the non-canon New Line book The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare, in the films, the height of Minas Tirith from the bottom to the top of the Tower of Ecthelion, which individually is said to be tall is around, same as the Eiffel Tower, and the diameter of the city almost three-quarters of a mile ().

According to tradition, Thales was able to predict an eclipse and taught the Egyptians how to measure the height of the pyramids.

According to Chinese sources, the fleet for Zheng's 1405 expedition comprised nearly 30, 000 sailors and over 300 ships at its height.

According to halakha, the mezuzah should be placed on the right side of the door or doorpost, in the upper third of the doorpost ( i. e., approximately shoulder height ), within approximately of the doorway opening.

According to Pechtold this explained the reluctance of VVD and CDA ministers to offer constructive solutions at the height of the crisis.

According to Plutarch, at one point during the height of the civil strife, as respected Roman nobles were being led to execution from Sulla's villa, Cato, aged about 14, asked his tutor why no one had yet killed the dictator.

According to her description, Melanie is a rather petite and delicate young woman with the height and weight of a child.

According to the Records of Three Kingdoms, he was an excellent archer with a beautiful beard and long arms, his height was about 178 cm.

According to witch-hunters during the height of the witch trials ( c. 1645 ), the witches ’ mark ( not to be confused with a witches ' teat ) indicated that an individual was a witch.

According to another source, 18th century Scots writers like Allan Ramsay justified their use of Scots ( instead of English ) by comparing it to the use of Ancient Greek Doric by Theocritus.

According to his opinion, her success was probably chiefly due to her beauty and her use of the local Boeotian dialect, as opposed to the Doric of Pindar's poems.

According to Milligan, the columns had been an influence on the comedic style of his radio series, The Goon Show.

According to American artist George Caleb Bingham, himself a resident of Kansas City at the time, one could see the " dense columns of smoke arising in every direction ", symbolic of what he termed " a ruthless military despotism which spared neither age, sex, character, nor condition ".

According to Herodotus, who described the temple's courtyard as a peristyle of columns with giant statues, it was built during the reign of Psammetichus I.

According to one description of her live act, she " communicated an intense sexuality across the footlights that led male reporters to write long, exuberant columns about her performance "— articles that would later be reproduced in the Edison film catalog.

According to Emporis, the New York State Education Building in Albany, New York has the longest colonnade in the United States, with 36 Corinthian columns.

Letter columns in some newspapers called the show a farce and used the term " whites with cellphones " to explain the presence of Hendrik Verwoerd and Eugène Terre ' Blanche high on the rankings .< ref name =" 152. 111. 1. 87 "> This view was rebutted by Afrikaans singer-songwriter Steve Hofmeyr who pointed out that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, post-apartheid convicted fraudster, scored high on the list as well .< ref > According to Peter Matlare, CEO of the SABC, the show was stopped because " wider participation in the voting process " was necessary.

According to James Moske, an archivist with the New York Public Library who arranged and cataloged the library's Clarence Day Papers, a survey of Day ’ s early short stories and magazine columns reveals " he was fascinated by the changing roles of men and women in American society as Victorian conceptions of marriage, family, and domestic order unraveled in the first decades of the twentieth century.

According to Penrose, the rise of the curved stylobate of the Parthenon had already been obtained in the stereobate carrying it, long before the problem of bedding the columns on the curve had arisen.

According to experts, this rare geological phenomenon was the remnants of a ridge and had clusters of vertical columns in nearby Jogeshwari which were quarried off two decades ago.

In July 2008, Simmons announced that he would be taking 10 weeks off from writing columns for ESPN. com's Page 2 to concentrate on finishing his second book, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy, which was released on October 27, 2009.

According to one of Constantin Mille's columns of 1906, the newspaper continued to see itself as an advocate of people's causes: " Any of our readers know that, should any injustice be committed against them, should all authorities discard them, they will still find shelter under this newspaper's roof.

According to Politico, " When it came to the editorial page, Anschutz ’ s instructions were explicit — he ' wanted nothing but conservative columns and conservative op-ed writers ,' said one former employee.

According to the " orders " in the forged documents, Malet had the troops take up their weapons and dispatched detachments of the 10th Cohort in columns to various locations to make arrests.