Vitruvius on Power
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Vitruvius, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to Vitruvius and filed under "power" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Vitruvius, entry #140150: "These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principal of the pseudodipteral octastyle."
Attributed to Vitruvius, entry #113478: "It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun."
8 Quotes by Vitruvius on Power
"These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principal of the pseudodipteral octastyle."
"It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun."
"There are also half bricks. ...As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls."
"In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them."
"Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow."
"Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body."
"Since such very powerful kings have not disdained walls built of brick, although... they might often have had them not only of masonry or dimension stone but even of marble, I think that one ought not to reject buildings made of brick-work, provided that they are properly "topped."
"The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman,..."