



Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Turgut Dincer and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net






     +----------------------------------------------------------+
     | Transcriber's note:                                      |
     |                                                          |
     | The combination "vv" which occurs at some places for     |
     | "w" and the word "Jonick" used sometimes for "Ionick"    |
     | has been kept to conserve the original appearance of the |
     | book. No changes have been made in the text except the   |
     | correction of obvious typos.                             |
     +----------------------------------------------------------+

                  [Illustration: ARCHITECTVRE 1692]


                                 AN
                             ABRIDGMENT
                               OF THE
                            ARCHITECTURE
                                 OF
                              VITRUVIUS.

                              CONTAINING

                     A System of the whole WORKS
                            of that Author.

            Illustrated with divers Copper Plates, curiously
                 engraved; with a Table of Explanation,
                   To which is added in this Edition

                  The Etymology and Derivation of the
                      Terms used in _Architecture_.

           First done in _French_ by Monsr _Perrault_, of the
         Academy of _Paris_, and now _Englished_, with Additions.

           _LONDON_: Printed for _Abel Small_ and _T. Child_,
           at the _Unicorn_ in St. _Paul_'s Church-yard. 1692.



A

TABLE

OF THE

CHAPTERS.


The Introduction.

Article 1. _Of the great merits of_ Vitruvius, _and the
Excellencies of his Works_.                                 Page 1.

  Art. 2. _Of the method of the Works of_ Vitruvius, _with
    short Arguments of every Book_.                              9.

_A division of his whole Works into three parts, whereof 1.
treats of Building, 2. Gnomonical, 3. Mechanical. A second
division into three parts, 1. of Solidity, 2. of
Convenience, and 3. of Beauty. The Arguments of the Ten
Books._ 11, 12, &c.


THE FIRST PART.

Of the Architecture that is common to us
with the Ancients.

  _Chap. I._ Of Architecture in general.

  Art. 1. _Of the Original of Architecture_,                    17.

_The first occasion of Architecture; the Models of the
first_ _Architects_, 19. _The Inventers of the four Orders
of Architecture_, 20.

  Art. 2. _What Architecture is_,                               23.

_Definition of it; an Architect ought to have the knowledge
of eleven things_, viz. _Writing_, _Designing_, _Geometry_,
_Arithmetick_, _History_, 24. _Philosophy, moral and
natural_, 25. _Physick_, _Law_, _Astronomy_, and _Musick_.
26.

  Art. 3. _What the parts of Architecture are_,                 27.

_There are eight parts in Architecture_, viz. 1. _Solidity_,
27. 