M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intelligi possit

THE CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST BOOK OF M. VITRUVIUS ON ARCHITECTURE.

What architecture is and about the training of architects. Chapter I.
From what things architecture consists. Chapter II.
About the parts of architecture in the distribution of private and public buildings, and of gnomonics the art of constructing sundials and mechanics. Chapter III.
About the selection of healthy locations, and what things are harmful to health, and from where light should be taken. Chapter IV.
About the foundations of walls and towers. Chapter V.
About the division of works which are within the walls, and their arrangement, so that the harmful blasts of winds are avoided. Chapter VI.
About the selection of locations for the common use of the city. Chapter VII.

CHAPTERS OF THE SECOND BOOK.

About the life of primitive men, and about the beginnings of humanity and of shelters and their increments. Chapter I.
About the principles of things according to the opinions of the philosophers. Chapter II.
About bricks. Chapter III.
About sand. Chapter IV.
About lime. Chapter V.
About Pozzolana dust. Chapter VI.
About stone quarries. Chapter VII.
About the types of construction and their qualities, modes, and locations. Chapter VIII.
About cutting timber. Chapter IX.
About the upper and lower fir wood, with a description of the Apennines. Chapter X.

CHAPTERS OF THE THIRD BOOK.

About the composition of sacred buildings, and symmetries, and the measure of the human body. Chapter I.
About the five species of buildings. Chapter II.
About foundations, and columns, and their ornament and architraves, both in solid and in filled-in locations. Chapter III.

CHAPTERS OF THE FOURTH BOOK.

About the origins and inventions of the three types of columns. Chapter I.
About the ornaments of columns. Chapter II.
About the Doric system. Chapter III.