On Architecture, Volume I: Books 1-5 [Latin]

by Vitruvius

The Renaissance man avant la lettre.

Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674992776
• ISBN13: 9780674992771
• Release Date: January 1931
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.6" x 6.7"