Word: vitruvius
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...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Translations from Plautus." Mr. H. T. Schnittkind. "A Harvard Manuscript of Terence." Mr. R. H. Webb. "An Emendation of Vitruvius." Mr. C. A. R. Sanborn. Sever...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Translations from Plautus." Mr. H. T. Schnittkind. "A Harvard Manuscript of Terence." Mr. R. H. Webb. "An Emendation of Vitruvius." Mr. C. A. R. Sanborn. Sever...
...oldest German poetry, published at the Frankfurt in 1590 is also in the collection as well as Eusebius's "Chronicon, continued by Matthews Palmeirus," dated 1483, a very important and interesting book, because of its references to the discovery of printing under the year 1457 and "Libride Architectura," by Vitruvius, a beautiful edition containing many curious plans and wood-cuts by the famous engraver, Glunta of Florence, dated...
CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Problems concerning the Date of Vitruvius," Mr. K. K. Smith. "Caesar's Legionary Officers," Mr. C. B. Loughead. "A Search for Manuscripts in Italian Libraries," Professor Minton Warren. Sever...
...forms was a spontaneous creation, springing complete and perfect from the brain of Greek architects, as Athena, with helmet and spear, darted into life from the head of Zeus. Numerous excavations conducted in recent years have demonstrated the incorrectness of this view. They have shown that the Roman architect Vitruvius was in the main right in deriving the Doric temple from structures in wood. Evidences for the theory were found in the ground plans of such buildings as the Megaron and in the palace at Mycenae and Tiryns, in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and also in Egyptian buildings...