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

M. VITRUVIUS ON ARCHITECTURE

CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST BOOK.

What architecture is and how architects are to be trained. Chapter I.
From what things architecture consists. Chapter II.
On the parts of architecture regarding the distribution of private and public buildings, and on gnomonics the study of sundials and machinery. Chapter III.
On the selection of healthy locations, what is harmful to health, and from where light should be taken. Chapter IV.
On the foundations of walls and towers. Chapter V.
On the division of works within walls and their arrangement so that harmful winds are avoided. Chapter VI.
On the selection of locations for the common use of a city. Chapter VII.

CHAPTERS OF THE SECOND BOOK.

On the life of ancient men, the beginnings of humanity, and the development of dwellings. Chapter I.
On the principles of things according to the opinions of the philosophers. Chapter II.
On bricks. Chapter III.
On sand. Chapter IV.
On lime. Chapter V.
On Pozzolana powder volcanic ash used for cement. Chapter VI.
On stone quarries. Chapter VII.
On the kinds of structures and their qualities, methods, and locations. Chapter VIII.
On the felling of timber. Chapter IX.
On fir wood, both from the heights and the lowlands, with a description of the Apennines. Chapter X.

CHAPTERS OF THE THIRD BOOK.

On the composition of sacred temples, symmetries, and the measure of the human body. Chapter I.
On the five species of temples. Chapter II.
On foundations, columns, their ornamentation, and architraves, both in solid and filled-in ground. Chapter III.

CHAPTERS OF THE FOURTH BOOK.

On the origins and inventions of the three types of columns. Chapter I.
On the ornaments of columns. Chapter II.
On the Doric manner. Chapter III.