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Vitruvius · 1552

On rainwater, and its virtues. II.
On hot waters, and what powers they have proceeding from diverse metals, and on the nature of various springs, rivers, and lakes. III.
On the property also of certain places and springs. IV.
On experiments of waters. V.
On the conduits and leveling of waters, and instruments accommodating this use. VI.
In how many ways waters are conducted. VII.
CHAPTERS OF THE NINTH BOOK.
Plato's invention on measuring land. I.
On the square, a Pythagorean invention, from the deformation of an orthogonal triangle. II.
How a portion of silver mixed with gold can be detected and discerned in an entire work. III.
On gnomonic methods found from the rays of the sun through shadow, and on the world and the planets. IV.
On the course of the sun through the twelve signs of the Zodiac. V.
On the stars that are from the Zodiac to the north. VI.
On the stars that are from the Zodiac to the south. VII.
On the methods of sundials, and the shadows of gnomons at the time of the equinox, in Rome and some other places. VIII.
On the method and use of sundials, and their invention, and by which inventors. IX.
CHAPTERS OF THE TENTH BOOK.
On what a machine is, and its difference from an organ, its origin and necessity. I.
On the pulling machines of sacred buildings and public works. II.
On the diverse appellations of machines, and in what manner they are erected. III.
A machine similar to the superior one, to which heavier burdens can be more safely entrusted, having merely changed the axle into a drum. IV.
Another type of pulling machine. V.
The ingenious method of Ctesiphon for moving heavy loads. VI.
On the invention of the quarry by which the temple of Diana of Ephesus was built. VII.
On the lengthening and rounding of machines for the lifting of loads. VIII.
On types of organs for drawing water, and first on the tympanum treadwheel. IX.
On wheels and drums for grinding flour. X.
On the screw Archimedes' screw which raises a great abundance of water, but not high. XI.
On the Ctesibica machine, by which it raises water very high. XII.
On hydraulic machines, by which organs are performed. XIII.
By what method we measure the journey completed when carried by carriage or ship. XIV.
On the methods of catapults and scorpions. XV.
On the methods of ballistae. XVI.
On the proportion of stones to be thrown to the hole of the ballista. XVII.
On the tensions and temperatures of catapults and ballistae. XVIII.
On offensive and defensive things, and first on the invention of the battering ram, and its machine. XIX.
On the tortoise a roofed structure for siege work to be prepared for the filling of ditches. XX.
On other tortoises. XXI.
Peroration of the entire work. XXII.