[crater] Vitruvius is a small lunar impact crater that lies on the northern edge of the Mare Tranquillitatis. To the east is the crater Gardner, and to the northeast is Fabbroni. To the 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 circ...
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Roman architect, engineer, and author of the celebrated treatise De architectura (On Architecture), a handbook for Roman architects.[20 related articles]
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(lived 1st century BC) Roman architect. His ten-volume study of Roman architecture, De architectura, first printed in Rome in 1486, provided an important impetus for the Renaissance. Although often obscure, his writings...
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect who in 25 BC produced a ten-volume work on Greek and early Roman classical architecture 'De Re Architectura'. It lay forgotten until the early 1400's but following its discovery in the monastic library of St Gallen in Switzerland,...
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; a Roman military engineer and architect, born ca. 90 BCE; author of De Architectura Libri Decem, Ten Books on Architecture; in the ten books, Vitruvius discusses pavement techniques, building materials and dyes, town planning, temples, civic and private structures, amplification in ampitheaters, water supply, geometry, astr...
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