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    read as "Vitruvius Polio, and others" or, less likely, as "Vitruvius, Polio, and others". An inscription in Verona, which names a Lucius Vitruvius Cordo...
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    Research Program. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mons Vitruvius. Mons Vitruvius at The Moon Wiki LTO-43D4 Vitruvius — L&PI topographic map v t e...
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    Lucius Vitruvius Cerdo was an ancient Roman architect active in Verona. His only known work is the Arco dei Gavi, a 1st-century arch in Verona, Italy...
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    The Proportions of the Human Figure after Vitruvius, or Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius. It is much better known as the Vitruvian...
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    north-northwest is the elongated Mons Vitruvius mountain, and beyond is the valley where the Apollo 17 mission landed. The rim of Vitruvius is somewhat circular, but...
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    Vitruvius Britannicus vol. 3, 1725 Houghton Hall in Norfolk; James Gibbs added the domes to Campbell's design Mereworth Castle in Kent, Vitruvius Britannicus...
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    are not described, but they are both made in bronze, just as Vitruvius specified. Vitruvius also mentioned the several automatons Ctesibius invented, and...
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    architecture is De architectura by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the early 1st century AD. According to Vitruvius, a good building should satisfy the three principles...
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    AD, and many sources give him the credit for its invention. However, Vitruvius was the first to describe this appliance in his De architectura (ca. 30–20...
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  • Marcus Vitruvius Vaccus (d. 330 BC) was a citizen of Fondi, and the leader of the revolt of the Fundani and Privernates against Rome in 330 BC. He was...
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