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Vitruvius Pollio · 1556 · In Vinegia : Per Francesco Marcolini · 16 pictures

Vitruvius Pollio's ten-book treatise on architecture, printed in Venice in 1556 by Francesco Marcolini for scholars and builders in the Italian Renaissance. Its pages mix architectural sections, geometric diagrams and astronomical plates, showing how classical building theory was taught and illustrated. A designer might take its precise line drawings, ornamental star-and-knot geometry and dense numbered diagrams as models for technical plates and ornament.

Architecture · Machinery · Astronomy · Architecture -- Early works to 1800 · Machinery -- Early works to 1800 · Astronomy -- Early works to 1800

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