The Ten Books on Architecture they contain an unusual combination

they contain an unusual combination of wit and mathematical intricacy that will test your mathematical ingenuity and provide hours of stimulating entertainment

first became known to a wide public

now sound more like legend than history

published originally in Germany in the early 1920s

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The Ten Books on Architecture they contain an unusual combinationMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B. C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his "Ten Books on Architecture" were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world reveal the widespread influence of his precepts. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, he was "the chief