Vitruvius
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De architectura libri decem
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1567
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ſpiritales machinas, automata, & </
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liqua generis huius, quæ hominum uoluptati, & </
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rum librorum Vitru. </
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darentur Architectis ijs, qui iustam impenſarum ſummam magiſtratui dediſſent, priuſquam opus curandum
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ſuſciperent, & </
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Stris temporibus uanitate quadam ( ut puto ) accidit. </
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ſponderet, opulentißimorum Regum opes exhauriendæ forent. </
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faciundum eſt, deſtituitur interim egregia illa ornamenta puluere, & </
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eſſe, quod uideri, aut eſſe uolunt, & </
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prudenter, cogitemus & </
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perito traditur Architecto. </
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noſtris temporibus obſeruari deberet. </
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tas, deliberandi periculum, & </
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nẽ machinationis rationem expedite, ac explicate cognoſcere. </
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decimo ad quintum decimum, nonnullas deſcribit machinas, quas hydraulicas uocat. </
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quo natur a ad humanos uſus flecti, ac deduci poſſet. </
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moles, metas, obeliſcos, columnasq́; </
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