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In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work...
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
The word "universe" means the general assemblage of all nature, and it also means the heaven that is made up of the constellations and the courses of the stars.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
For neither talent without instruction nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect craftsman.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
Thus a material which cannot last even a little while above ground, endures for a long time when covered with moisture.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
Ceres also should be outside the city in a place to which people need never go except for the purpose of sacrifice.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
Further, at intervals they lay single stones which run through the entire thickness of the wall.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
They should rather be made of white and chalky or of red clay, or even of a coarse grained gravelly clay.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
The properties of the soil are as different and unlike as are the various countries.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
There are three departments of architecture: the art of building, the making of time-pieces, and the construction of machinery.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
Every hot spring has healing properties because it has been boiled with foreign substances, and thus acquires a new useful quality.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
Even peasants wholly without knowledge of the quarters of the sky believe that oxen ought to face only in the direction of the sunrise.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
The system of fortification by wall and towers may be made safest by the addition of earthen ramparts.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)
They make a fine purple colour by treating bilberry in the same way and mixing it with milk.
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (-15)