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The 36 pages that link to Vitruvius, each with the reason it gives.

• Roman architectureRelated: His account records Roman ideas about design, materials, and building.

• Classical architectureRelated: His account of ancient building principles shaped later interpretations of classical design.

• ArchitectureRelated: His account of durability, utility, and beauty shaped later architectural theory.

• Roman concreteRelated: His text describes lime, aggregate, and volcanic materials used in Roman construction.

• Archimedes' principleRelated: His story of Archimedes testing a crown helped popularize the principle's discovery.

• SundialRelated: His account describes sundial types and their design in the ancient world.

• PulleyRelated: His work records Roman knowledge of hoists and pulley mechanisms.

• Architectural drawingRelated: Vitruvius described architectural design principles and representational methods in antiquity.

• Andrea PalladioRelated: Palladio studied and illustrated Vitruvius, drawing on his account of ancient building practice.

• Doric orderRelated: His account helped transmit ancient interpretations of Doric proportions and origins.

• Roman military engineeringRelated: His work preserves Roman technical knowledge relevant to fortifications, machines, and construction.

• Classical ordersRelated: His account transmitted ancient ideas about the orders to later architectural culture.

• Ancient Greek architectureRelated: His account transmitted Greek architectural principles to later readers, though it was written in Roman times.

• Archimedes' screwRelated: Vitruvius described a water-raising screw, providing an early written account of the machine.

• Roman engineeringRelated: His work preserves Roman discussions of materials, machines, water, and building design.

• Encaustic paintingRelated: He describes the use of wax and heat to protect painted surfaces.

• Ionic orderRelated: His account transmitted ancient explanations of the Ionic order’s proportions and origins.

• Water wheelRelated: His account preserves an early technical description of a watermill.

• Leon Battista AlbertiRelated: Alberti studied and adapted Vitruvius’s architectural principles for Renaissance practice.

• Roman bathsRelated: His writing includes practical guidance on arranging and heating bath buildings.

• WatermillRelated: His account includes a waterwheel-driven mill, an early written description of the mechanism.

• De architecturaBroader topic: He composed the treatise and addressed it to the emperor Augustus.

• Roman surveyingRelated: His descriptions preserve evidence about instruments and methods used in Roman construction.

• Philo of ByzantiumRelated: Vitruvius transmitted material from Greek engineering traditions that include Philo's.

• Sebastiano SerlioRelated: Serlio drew on Vitruvius while recasting ancient architectural knowledge for Renaissance practice.

• Ancient Greek technologyCompared with: His account preserves Greek technical ideas while showing their Roman reception.

• Vitruvian ManRelated: His account of bodily proportions supplied the drawing's textual basis.

• Architectural theoryRelated: His account of firmness, commodity, and delight became a lasting framework for architectural thought.

• Giuliano da SangalloRelated: Vitruvius’s writings supplied ancient architectural principles that Renaissance architects, including Sangallo, studied.

• History of constructionRelated: His writing preserves Roman ideas about materials, methods, and the builder’s craft.

• WindlassRelated: Vitruvius recorded mechanisms, including hoisting arrangements related to the windlass.

• Ancient Roman technologyRelated: His surviving work records Roman architectural principles and technical knowledge.

• Building designRelated: His account of firmness, commodity, and delight remains a touchstone for design aims.

• Pompeian StylesRelated: His account of wall painting provides a contemporary critique of architectural illusionism.

• Villa La RotondaRelated: Palladio studied Vitruvius’s account of ancient architecture and incorporated its principles into his work.

• Vincenzo ScamozziRelated: His classical principles informed the architectural theory Scamozzi inherited and recast.