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

CHAPTERS OF THE SEVENTH BOOK.

About stucco-work. Chapter I.
About the maceration of lime for finishing white-work and plastering. Chapter II.
About the arrangement of the ceiling, the lathing, and plaster-work. Chapter III.
About polishing in humid locations. Chapter IV.
About the method of painting in buildings. Chapter V.
About how marble is prepared for plastering. Chapter VI.
About colors, and first about ochre. Chapter VII.
About the methods of cinnabar. Chapter VIII.
About the temperature of cinnabar. Chapter IX.
About colors that are made by art. Chapter X.
About the preparations of blue. Chapter XI.
How white lead, verdigris, and sandarac are made. Chapter XII.
How the most excellent of artificial colors, ostrum purple dye, is made. Chapter XIII.
About purple colors. Chapter XIV.

CHAPTERS OF THE EIGHTH BOOK.

About the discovery of water. Chapter I.
About rainwater. Chapter II.
About hot waters, and what powers they possess derived from various metals, and about the nature of various springs, rivers, and lakes. Chapter III.
About the property, also, of certain places and springs. Chapter IV.
About the testing of waters. Chapter V.
About the conduits and leveling of waters, and the instruments for this use. Chapter VI.
In how many ways water may be conducted. Chapter VII.

CHAPTERS OF THE NINTH BOOK.

Plato's invention for measuring land. Chapter I.
About the Pythagorean rule derived from the configuration of the right-angled triangle. Chapter II.
How the portion of silver mixed with gold in a complete work may be detected and distinguished. Chapter III.
About gnomonic related to sundials methods discovered through the rays of the sun by shadow, and about the universe and the planets. Chapter IV.
About the course of the sun through the twelve signs. Chapter V.
About the stars that are from the zodiac toward the north. Chapter VI.