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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. Historians, using so very little real data, have named him marcus vitruvius pollio. Joannes sulpitius 1487 leather bound marcus vitruvius pollio on. Marcus vitruvius pollio, a roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century b. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines, for the battering. Vitruvius the ten books on architecture garden visit. The architecture of marcus vitruvius pollio author.
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