Vitruvius ( vii, praef.

Of another Arcesius, an architect, Vitruvius ( vii, introduction ) notes: " Arcesius, on the Corinthian order proportions, and on the Ionic order temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands.

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.

( Vitruvius vii, introduction )

Silanion wrote a treatise on proportions that is mentioned by Vitruvius ( vii, introduction ).

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

( Vitruvius VII, introduction ).

It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius.

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:

In about 20 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote a treatise on the acoustic properties of theatres including discussion of interference, echoes, and reverberation — the beginnings of architectural acoustics.

The use of bricks in southern and western Germany, for example, can be traced back to traditions already described by the Roman architect Vitruvius.

The handbook De architectura by Roman writer, architect and engineer Vitruvius, is the only architectural writing that survived from Antiquity.

His detailed observations, included in his De Re Aedificatoria ( 1452, Ten Books of Architecture ), were patterned after the De architectura by the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius ( fl.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ( born c. 80 – 70 BC, died after c. 15 BC ) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC.

Frontinus refers to " Vitruvius the architect " in his late 1st-century work De aquaeductu.

Mainly known for his writings, Vitruvius was himself an architect.

* The Roman writer, architect and engineer Vitruvius finishes writing De Architectura ( known today as The Ten Books of Architecture ), a treatise in Latin on architecture, and perhaps the first work about this discipline.

* Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Roman writer, architect and engineer

Much later, the Roman writer Vitruvius ( c. 75 BCE – c. 15 BCE ) related that the Corinthian order had been invented by Callimachus, a Greek architect and sculptor who was inspired by the sight of a votive basket that had been left on the grave of a young girl.

Many of the sacred geometry principles of the human body and of ancient architecture have been compiled into the Vitruvian Man drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci, itself based on the much older writings of the roman architect Vitruvius.

Atlantes and caryatids were noted by the Roman late Republican architect Vitruvius, whose description of the structures, rather than surviving examples, transmitted the idea of atlantes to the Renaissance architectural vocabulary.

The Latin inscription on the reverse of the medallion — firmitas, utilitas, venustas ( English: durability, utility, and beauty )— is inspired by Roman architect Vitruvius.

The Roman architect Vitruvius, following contemporary practice, outlined in his treatise the procedure for laying out constructions based on a module, which he took to be one half a column's diameter, taken at the base.

* 20s BC – Roman architect Vitruvius describes low-water-content method for mixing concrete

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

Vitruvius, a practicing architect who worked in the time of Augustus, reports ( De Architectura, iv ) that the Doric has a basis of sturdy male body proportions while Ionic depends on " more graceful " female body proportions.

* Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ( 80-70 BC — after 15 BC ), engineer, architect

A method of drawing the complex geometry was devised by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius from classical buildings and structures.

Vitruvius, a Roman architect and writer of the 1st century BCE, advised that libraries be placed facing eastwards to benefit from morning light, but not towards the south or the west as those winds generate bookworms.

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius.

" The Roman architect Vitruvius always uses the word templum to refer to this sacred precinct, and the more common Latin words aedes, delubrum, or fanum for a temple or shrine as a building.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a 1st-century BCE Roman architect ’ s treatise “ De architectura ,” with various sections, dealing with urban planning, building materials, temple construction, public and private buildings, and hydraulics, remained a classic text until the Renaissance.

The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.

In Egypt, where the climate is intensely dry, there would be no fear of their warping, but in other countries it would be necessary to frame them, which according to Vitruvius ( iv.

Marcus Vitruvius, in the first century B. C., described a philosophical theory of the hydrologic cycle, in which precipitation falling in the mountains infiltrated the Earth's surface and led to streams and springs in the lowlands.

Scholars think it might have been an Etruscan ( or local ) creation based on Vitruvius ' treatise on architecture, in which the three deities are associated as most important.

* 236 BC – The date ascribed by Vitruvius for the first documented elevator, which he reports as having been built by Archimedes.

Burlington's Palladio drawings include many reconstructions after Vitruvius of Roman buildings, which Burlington planned to publish.

In the meantime, in 1723 he adapted the palazzo facade in the illustration for the London house of General Wade in Old Burlington Street, which was engraved for Vitruvius Britannicus iii ( 1725 ).

* Hero described construction of the aeolipile ( a version of which is known as Hero's engine ) which was a rocket-like reaction engine and the first-recorded steam engine ( although Vitruvius mentioned the aeolipile in De Architectura some 100 years earlier than Hero ).

We learn from Vitruvius that Satyrus and Phytheus wrote a description of their work which Pliny likely read.

The major features of the Ionic order are the volutes of its capital, which have been the subject of much theoretical and practical discourse, based on a brief and obscure passage in Vitruvius.

He invented a new hoisting machine for raising the masonry needed for the dome, a task no doubt inspired by republication of Vitruvius ' De Architectura, which describes Roman machines used in the first century AD to build large structures such as the Pantheon and the Baths of Diocletian, structures still standing which he would have seen for himself.

He was well aware of the seminal work De Architectura by Vitruvius, which mentions aqueduct construction and maintenance published in the previous century, classing him at one point as being influential with " the plumbers ".

During his lifetime he published two works: The Elements of Architecture ( 1624 ), which is a free translation of de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, executed during his time in Venice ; and a Latin prose address to the king on his return from Scotland ( 1633 ).

Alternatively, the medieval treadwheel may represent a deliberate reinvention of its Roman counterpart drawn from Vitruvius ' De architectura which was available in many monastic libraries.

Two further, specifically Roman orders of architecture have their characteristic capitals, the sturdy and primitive Tuscan capitals, typically used in military buildings, similar to Greek Doric, but with fewer small moldings in its profile, and the invented Composite capitals not even mentioned by Vitruvius, which combined Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus capitals, in an order that was otherwise quite similar in proportions to the Corinthian, itself an order that Romans employed much more often than Greeks.

Leonardo is clearly illustrating Vitruvius ' De architectura 3. 1. 2-3 which reads:

He also departs from Vitruvius by drawing the arms raised to a position in which the fingertips are level with the top of the head, rather than Vitruvius's much lower angle, in which the arms form lines passing through the navel.

The system was illustrated in Cesar Cesariano's Vitruvius ( 1521 ), which he called " the rule of the German architects ".