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Dover Architecture eBook Series

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  • The Ten Books on Architecture

    by Vitruvius ...
    Series series Dover Architecture
    Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his "Ten Books on Architecture" were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world reveal the widespread influence of his precepts. ... Read more

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  • The Ten Books on Architecture

    by Vitruvius Pollio ...
    The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius PollioDuring the last years of his life, Professor Morgan devoted his time and energy to preparing the translation of Vitruvius, which he proposed to supplement with revised text, illustrations and recorded notes. He had finished translating, except for the last four chapters of the tenth book, and spoke with Professor Warren for illustrations for the ... Read more

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  • On Architecture

    by Vitruvius ...
    Translated by Richard Schofield ...
    In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance ... Read more

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  • Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

    by George P. Marsh ...
    "Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action" by George P. Marsh is a seminal work that explores the intricate relationship between humans and the natural environment. Marsh argues that human activities have significantly altered the physical landscape, leading to both environmental degradation and transformation. He emphasizes the importance of understanding these changes ... Read more

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  • The Stones of Venice, volume I

    by John Ruskin ...
    Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness, if it forget their example, may be led through prouder eminence to less pitied destruction.The ... Read more

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  • The Ten Books on Architecture

    by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Morris Hicky Morgan, Translator, Herbert Langford Warren, iIllustrator ...
    This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents and IndexCONTENTSBOOK IPrefaceThe Education of the ArchitectThe Fundamental Principles of ArchitectureThe Departments of ArchitectureThe Site of a CityThe City WallsThe Directions of the Streets; with Remarks on the WindsThe Sites for Public BuildingsBOOK IIIntroductionThe Origin of the Dwelling HouseOn the Primor... ... Read more

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  • The City of the Sun

    by Tommaso Campanella ...
    A Fascinating Renaissance Vision of the Ideal Society, Knowledge, and Human OrganizationWritten in 1602, The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella is one of the most important utopian works of the Renaissance. Campanella, a Dominican friar, philosopher, and political thinker, imagines an ideal community organized around shared knowledge, collective responsibility, education, and the pursuit of the ... Read more

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  • A History of Greek Art

    by F.B. Tarbell ...
    The art of any artistically gifted people may be studied with various purposes and in various ways. One man, being himself an artist, may seek inspiration or guidance for his own practice; another, being a student of the history of civilization, may strive to comprehend the products of art as one manifestation of a people's spiritual life; another may be interested chiefly in tracing the ... Read more

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  • Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

    by E. H. Davis; E. G. Squier ...
    "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" is a seminal work that explores the rich archaeological heritage of the Mississippi River region. Authored by E. H. Davis and E. G. Squier, the book meticulously documents the various earthworks and mounds constructed by ancient Native American cultures. Through detailed descriptions and illustrations, the authors provide insights into the social and ... Read more

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  • Rough Stone Monuments And Their Builders

    by T. Eric Peet ...
    The aim of this volume is to enable those who are interested in Stonehenge and other great stone monuments of England to learn something of the similar buildings which exist in different parts of the world, of the men who constructed them, and of the great archæological system of which they form a part. It is hoped that to the archæologist it may be useful as a complete though brief sketch of our ... Read more

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  • An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius

    by Vitruvius Pollio ...
    IT’s related by Historians, That Men, who in former times inhabited Woods and Caverns like wild Beasts, first assembled themselves to make Houses and Cities, which was occasioned by a Forest that was set on fire, which drew all the Inhabitants together by its novelty and surprizing effects; so that many Men meeting together in the same place, they found out means, by helping one another, to ... Read more

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  • Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns

    by Heinrich Schliemann ...
    In the south-east corner of the Plain of Argos, on the lowest and flattest of a group of rocky hills, which rise like islands out of the marshy lowlands, only eight stadia or one mile from the Gulf of Argos, was situated the ancient citadel of Tiryns, now called Palæocastron. It was celebrated as the birthplace of Hercules and was famous for its gigantic Cyclopean walls, of which Pausanias says, ... Read more

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