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  • Ten Books on Architecture

    With Illustrations & Original Designs

    by Vitruvius, Herbert Langford Warren, Nelson Robinson, Morris Hicky Morgan ...
    The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. Practice is the continuous and regular exercise of employment where manual work is done with any necessary material according to the design of a drawing. Theory, on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quarry

    by James Nelson Robinson ...
    10 years have passed since youngsters Bobby Massey and Linda West stumbled across an Australian Government secret cache of weapons. Now armed with new information, rogue government officials were ready to take any measures necessary to ensure their lucrative secret deal with a third world nation rebel group, remains secret.Bobby is captured by ex-military soldiers working for the rogue elements ... Read more

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  • Ten Books on Architecture

    by Vitruvius Vitruvius ...
    Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan ...
    The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. Practice is the continuous and regular exercise of employment where manual work is done with any necessary material according to the design of a drawing. Theory, on ... 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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  • Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro

    by Marcus Porcius Cato ...
    Marcus Porcius Cato (234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient), or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger. His manual on running a farm (De Agricultura or "On Farming")contained herein is his only work that survives completely. It is a ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • 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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  • Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'

    by Vitruvius ...
    The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Military Pyrotechnics of Former Days, Illustrated

    by Jacob Abbott ...
    This is a brief essay and early military pyrotechnics, Greek Fire, and the transition to gunpowder. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Troy and its Remains

    by Henry Schliemann ...
    Dr schliemann´s original narrative of his wonderful discoveries on the spot marked as the site of Homer's Ilium by an unbroken tradition, from the earliest historic age of Greece, has a permanent value and interest which can scarcely be affected by the final verdict of criticism on the result of his discoveries. If he has indeed found the fire-scathed ruins of the city whose fate inspired the ... Read more

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  • An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius

    by Vitruvius ...
    This translation was first published in 1692. According to Wikipedia: "Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman author, architect, and engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps best known for his multi-volume work entitled De Architectura. By his own description Vitruvius served as a ballista (artilleryman), the third class of arms in the military offices. He ... Read more

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  • Roman Building Techniques

    by Tony Rook ...
    Building and architecture flourished throughout the Roman Empire. The Romans discovered new techniques to solve problems but also to impress the world. They built aqueducts to bring water into their cities and towns, grand baths for cleansing and socialising, and elaborate villas for the cream of their society. In this book, scientist and archaeologist Tony Rook takes the reader through Roman ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Reminiscences of Glass-making

    by Deming Jarves ...
    It may be safely asserted that no department of art has, from its earliest period, attracted so much attention and investigation, none involved so extensive a range of inquiry, or been productive of more ingenious, interesting, and beautiful results, than the manufacture of glass. The question of the origin of glass goes back to the remotest antiquity, and is involved in almost entire obscurity. ... Read more

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