M. Vitruvii, viri suae professionis peritissimi, De architectura libri decem, ad Augustum Caesarem accuratiss. conscripti: & nunc primum in Germania qua potuit diligentia excusi, atque hinc inde schema tibus non iniucundis exornati : * Adiecimus etiam propter argumenti conformitatem, Sexti Iulii Frontini De aquaeductibus urbis Romae, libellum. Item ex libro Nicolai Cusani Card. de staticis experimentis, fragmentum. Cum indice copiosissimo, & dispositione longe meliori, quàm antea
Vitruvius's ten books on architecture, edited and printed in Germany in 1543 at the Knoblouch press in Strasbourg for scholars and builders, with additions by Frontinus on Roman aqueducts and by Cardinal Nikolaus of Cusa. The woodcut diagrams show column orders, a temple elevation and plan, and a water-lifting or machine diagram, giving designers clear, schematic models of classical proportion and construction.
