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Vitruvius · 1543

What was built with excellent works in Halicarnassus by King Mausolus (for they were numbered among the seven wonders of the world). Page 57.
The figure of a ceiling of the common type. Page 64.
The illustration of aquatic rafts. Page 65.
From the principles of sacred buildings, from which the appearance of the figures consists: and first "in antis," which is called in Greek naos en parastasin a temple with columns between the antae. Page 73.
The plan of a peripteral foundation, from which skilled architects [deduce] the elevation of the whole building, etc. Page 76.
The figure of pycnostyle and systyle intercolumniation. Page 78.
The figure of diastyle and araeostyle intercolumniation, the spacing of which it is proper to arrange with a certain freedom, from four modules up to the length of its columns. Page 80.
Foundations in difficult places, so that substructures may be held in solid ground, with piling leveled by a machine: upon which araeostyle and eustyle intercolumniations seem to be podiums with compartments for stylobates. Page 84.
The figure of the base or foot serving various types of columns, square or Attic. Page 86.
The figure of Ionic bases with various members symmetrized, with tori and fillets exchanged. Page 87.
The figure of various fluted Doric columns. Page 92.
The figure of three cubes in one design. Page 115.
The figure of the Greek forum in the Roman manner. Page 118.
The figure of round monopteral and peristylar buildings, with a tholus dome almost indicated at the top. Page 130.
The arrangement of baths, and the illustrated construction of their interior members. Page 136.
The figure of the Tuscan courtyard. Page 147.
The figure of the Corinthian courtyard. Page 149.
The figure of the displuviate, compluviate, and impluviate courtyards. Page 150.
The symmetry of atria from three formed types, and the wings, tablinums, and entrances, the impluvia, as well as the peristyles, and their other members. Page 152.
Corinthian or Egyptian reception rooms, built and decorated in the Greek manner. Page 154.