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• In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Giving, Principles, May

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 3,

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• Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Blow, Wind, People

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 11,

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• Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Men, Weather

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book V, Chapter I, Section 4), circa 15 BC.

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• I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Thinking, Finding The One, Names

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• In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Baby, Wall, Rain

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.16

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