Transcriber’s note:

 The combination "vv" which occurs at some places for "w" and theword "Jonick" used sometimes for "Ionick" has been kept to conservethe original appearance of the book. No changes have been made inthe text except the correction of obvious typos.
 
ARCHITECTURE.



AN
ABRIDGMENT
OF THE
ARCHITECTURE
OF
 Vitruvius.
CONTAINING
A System of the whole WORKS
of that Author.
Illustrated with divers Copper Plates, curiously engraved; witha Table of Explanation,
To which is added in this Edition
The Etymology and Derivation of the Terms used inArchitecture.
First done in French by MonsrPerrault, of the Academy of Paris, and nowEnglished, with Additions.
LONDON: Printed for Abel Small andT. Child, at the Unicorn in St. Paul’sChurch-yard. 1692.
 
A
TABLE
OF THE
CHAPTERS.
The Introduction.
Article 1. OF the great merits of Vitruvius,and the Excellencies of hisWorks       .Page 1.
Art. 2. Of the method of the Works ofVitruvius, with short Arguments of everyBook       .9.
A division of his whole Works into three parts,whereof 1. treats of Building, 2. Gnomonical, 3. Mechanical. Asecond division into three parts, 1. of Solidity, 2. ofConvenience, and 3. of Beauty. The Arguments of the TenBooks.         11, 12, &c.
THE FIRST PART.
Of the Architecture that is common to us withthe Ancients.
Chap. I. Of Architecture ingeneral.
Art. 1. Of the Original ofArchitecture,      17.
The first occasion of Architecture; the Models of thefirst Architects, 19. TheInventers of the four Orders of Architecture, 20.
Art. 2. What Architectureis,      23.
Definition of it; an Architect ought to have the knowledge ofeleven things, viz. Writing, Designing,Geometry, Arithmetick, History, 24. Philosophy, moral and natural, 25. Physick, Law, Astronomy,and Musick. 26                        
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