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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: THE ORIGIN OF THE DWELLING HOUSE
CHAPTER II: ON THE PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE ACCORDING TO THE PHYSICISTS
CHAPTER III: BRICK
CHAPTER IV: SAND
CHAPTER V: LIME
CHAPTER VI: POZZOLANA
CHAPTER VII: STONE
CHAPTER VIII: METHODS OF BUILDING WALLS
CHAPTER IX: TIMBER
CHAPTER X: HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND FIR
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7. Then, taking courage and looking forward from the standpoint of higher ideas born of the multiplication of the arts, they gave up huts and began to build houses with foundations, having brick or stone walls, and roofs of timber and tiles; next, observation and application led them from fluctuating and indefinite conceptions to definite rules of symmetry. Perceiving that nature had been lavish in the bestowal of timber and bountiful in stores of building material, they treated this like careful nurses, and thus developing the refinements of life, embellished them with luxuries. Therefore I shall now treat, to the best of my ability, of the things which are suitable to be used in buildings, showing their qualities and their excellencies.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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