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M. Vitruvii ... De architectura libri decem, ad Augustum Caesarem accuratiss. conscripti : & nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, .... * adiecimus etiam propter argumenti conformitatem, Sexti Iulii Frontini De aquaeductibus urbis Romae, libellum. item ex libro Nicolai Cusani Card. De staticis experimentis, fragmentum : Cum indice copiosissimo, & dispositione longe meliori, quàm antea
Vitruvius wrote the only ancient manual on architecture to survive into the modern era. This book connects the science of building to the proportions of the human body and the laws of nature.