An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius / Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author

by Vitruvius Pollio

F the great merits of Vitruvius, and the Excellencies of his Works .[Page 1.]

Art. 2. Of the method of the Works of Vitruvius, with short Arguments of every Book .[9.]

A division of his whole Works into three parts, whereof 1. treats of Building, 2. Gnomonical, 3. Mechanical. A second division into three parts, 1. of Solidity, 2. of Convenience, and 3. of Beauty. The Arguments of the Ten Books. [11,] [12,] &c.

THE FIRST PART.

Of the Architecture that is common to us with the Ancients.

Chap. I. Of Architecture in general.

Art. 1. Of the Original of Architecture, [17.]

The first occasion of Architecture; the Models of the first Architects, [19.] The Inventers of the four Orders of Architecture, [20.]

Art. 2. What Architecture is, [23.]

Definition of it; an Architect ought to have the knowledge of eleven things, viz. Writing, Designing, Geometry, Arithmetick, History, [24.] Philosophy, moral and natural, [25.] Physick, Law, Astronomy, and Musick. [26.]