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Vitruvius · 1543

The configuration of what was built by King Mausolus in Halicarnassus with excellent works (for they were counted among the seven wonders of the world). Page 57.
The figure of a common type of ceiling. Page 64.
The configuration of rafts for the water. Page 65.
From the principles of sacred buildings, from which the aspect of the figures consists; and first in antis, which is called in Greek naos en prostasin a temple with a portico. Page 73.
The ichnography ground plan of a peripteral foundation, from which the orthography elevation of the whole temple is very easily [made] by skilled architects, etc. Page 76.
The pycnostyle intercolumniation, the systyle configuration. Page 78.
The figure of the diastyle and araeostyle intercolumniation, of which, however, it is proper to place the intercolumniation with certain freedom, from four modules up to whatever length its columns are extended. Page 80.
Foundations in filled-in locations, so that substructures might be held in the solid, with public machine pile-driving leveled: upon which the araeostyle and eustyle intercolumniations seem to be honeycombed podia for the stylobates. Page 84.
The configuration of the spire or base serving various types of columns, square or Attic. Page 86.
The figure of Ionic spires with symmetries of diverse members, and exchanged tori and eyebrows. Page 87.
Figures of various fluted Doric columns. Page 92.
The figure of three cubes in one inscription. Page 115.
The figure of the Greek forum in the manner of the Latins. Page 118.
The figure of round monopteral and peristylar buildings, with the dome almost indicated at the top. Page 130.
The arrangement of baths, and the figured construction of their interior members. Page 136.
The figure of a Tuscan cavedium atrium. Page 147.
The figure of a Corinthian cavedium atrium. Page 149.
The figure of a displuviate and compluviate impluvium. Page 150.
The symmetry of atriums formed from three types, and of the wings, tablinums, and entrances, the impluviums, as well as the peristyles, and their other members. Page 152.
Corinthian or Egyptian halls, built in the Greek manner