next > 

1

An Abridgment of the Architecture of
by Vitruvius

---

The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Abridgment of the Architecture of

Vitruvius, by Vitruvius This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

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

Author: Vitruvius

Editor: Perrault

Release Date: January 24, 2009 [EBook #27877]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARCHITECTURE OF VITRUVIUS ***

---

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

---

+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | The combination "vv" which occurs at some places for | | "w" and the word "Jonick" used sometimes for "Ionick" | | has been kept to conserve the original appearance of the | | book. No changes have been made in the text except the | | correction of obvious typos. | +----------------------------------------------------------+

[Illustration: ARCHITECTVRE 1692]

AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF VITRUVIUS.

CONTAINING

A System of the whole WORKS of that Author.

Illustrated with divers Copper Plates, curiously engraved; with a Table of Explanation, To which is added in this Edition

The Etymology and Derivation of the Terms used in <

 next >