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Vitruvius · 1543

a fully constructed and well-adorned configuration, which is called the Cicizenorum style of Cyzicus. Page 154.
Locations with furnaces, such as the bathing rooms and hypocausts of the Laconians. Page 181.
A configuration of a [device] leaning on teeth likely referring to cogged wheels so that the subsidence of water from terrestrial vapor might be discovered. Page 186.
The diverse configuration of aqueducts, so that they might have the affluent abundance of rural fruits, and no less a necessary supplement for the protection of walls in cities. Page 201.
The wondrous invention of Archimedes, how he discovered that gold was mixed with silver. Page 109.
A figure of other machines for the lifting and moving of heavier burdens. Page 232.
Of traction machines for the lifting of burdens, with which they are moved quickly and expeditiously. Page 234.
A drum-like organ device/wheel for drawing water. Page 240.
A wheel surrounded by buckets, with which water is raised higher. Page 242.
A wheel by which water is received in higher places [by means of] vessels of set measure congialibus holding a congius suspended by an iron chain. Page 242.
A wheel for taking water from rivers, and suited for grinding flour. Page 243.