The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (80–70 BC - 15 BC)
Roman architect and military engineer most famous for writing De Architectura. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568-e-6840?rskey=To8Fnf&result=9 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius References in Documents:Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Here is also deposited another Sort of
red in my Survey ofthis Parish , amongst the Ruins of
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ing eight Inches broad, and almost double the Length:
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ing eight Inches broad, and almost double the Length: