Plato, Philebus, section 56b

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[56b]

Socrates
And we shall find that medicine and agriculture and piloting and generalship are all in the same case.

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
But the art of building, I believe, employs the greatest number of measures and instruments which give it great accuracy and make it more scientific than most arts.

Protarchus
In what way?

Socrates
In shipbuilding and house-building, and many other branches of wood-working. For the artisan uses a rule, I imagine, a lathe, compasses, a chalk-line,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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