| List of illustration sources |
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| Preface |
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| The Structure of Change |
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1 | (28) |
| late tenth century |
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'Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle' Alexander Romance |
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29 | (1) |
| 1057 |
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Account of the Abbey of Saint-Trond |
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30 | (1) |
| c. 1110 |
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30 | (1) |
| late 1120's |
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31 | (1) |
| 1125 |
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32 | (1) |
| c. 1143 |
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The Marvels of the City of Rome |
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33 | (1) |
| 1144 |
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On the Consecration of the Church of Saint Denis |
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34 | (1) |
| 1144-1149 |
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On Matters of Administration |
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35 | (3) |
| 1216 |
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The Conquest of Constantinople |
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38 | (2) |
| 1225-1250 |
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40 | (1) |
| c.1270 |
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Albrecht von Scharfenberg |
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41 | (1) |
| late thirteenth |
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Marco Polo, Rustichello of Pisa and others |
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The Travels of Marco century Polo |
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42 | (3) |
| c.1306-1309 |
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45 | (1) |
| April 26, 1342 |
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The Ascent of Mount Ventoux |
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46 | (1) |
| late summer 1347 |
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47 | (1) |
| 1400, 1401 |
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Annals of the Duomo of Milan |
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48 | (1) |
| c.1410 |
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The Book of Military and Chivalric Feats |
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49 | (1) |
| c.1428 |
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50 | (2) |
| 1435-1436 |
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52 | (1) |
| 1445-1459 |
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On Building composed; 1485 published |
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53 | (14) |
| 1451-1464 |
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Antonio Averlino, called Filarete |
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67 | (10) |
| 1467 completed; |
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Generally attributed to Francesco Colonna |
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Hypnerotomachia 1499 published Poliphili |
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77 | (5) |
| 1474-1482 |
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini |
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Treatises on Civil and Military Architecture |
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82 | (9) |
| 1519 |
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91 | (4) |
| 1521 |
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Translation of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture |
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95 | (7) |
| 1535 |
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Francesco Giorgi (or Zorzi) |
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Memorandum for S. Francesco delta Vigna |
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102 | (3) |
| 1537-1575 |
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The Books on Architecture |
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105 | (19) |
| 1550 |
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Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects |
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124 | (4) |
| c.1554 completed; |
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New Inventions for Making Fortresses of Various published 1598 Forms |
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128 | (1) |
| 1556 |
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Translation of Vitruvius's Ten Books |
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129 | (1) |
| late 1550's |
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130 | (1) |
| 1561 |
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New Inventions for Building Economically |
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131 | (7) |
| 1563 |
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True Recipe by Which the People of France Will be Able to Multiply their Fortunes. Also the Design and Ordonnance of a Fortified City That is the Most Unassailable Ever Heard Of |
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138 | (3) |
| 1567-1575 |
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141 | (1) |
| 1567-1648 |
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The First Volume of Architecture |
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141 | (10) |
| 1570 |
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The Four Books of Architecture |
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151 | (12) |
| 1590 |
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The Idea of the Temple of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture |
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163 | (1) |
| c.1591 |
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El Greco (Domenico Theotocopoulos) |
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Marginalia to Daniele Barbaro's translation of Vitruvius |
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164 | (4) |
| 1608 |
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The Idea of Painters, Sculptors and Architects |
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168 | (1) |
| 1615 |
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Of The Idea of Universal Architecture |
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169 | (3) |
| 1621 written; |
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Treatise on the Errors of the Architects 1767 published |
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172 | (3) |
| 1624 |
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175 | (4) |
| 1624 |
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179 | (1) |
| c.1625 |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Younger |
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Untitled Draft of a Letter to Pope Urban VIII about the Palazzo Barberini in Rome |
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180 | (1) |
| 1625 |
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'On Building', The Essays |
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180 | (2) |
| 1637 |
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182 | (1) |
| 1638 |
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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences |
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183 | (6) |
| 1650 |
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Roland Fréart de Chambray |
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Parallel of Antique and Modern Architecture |
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189 | (1) |
| 1654 |
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The Aristotelian Telescope |
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190 | (2) |
| 1663 |
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Account of a Trip to the Limousin |
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192 | (1) |
| 1664 written; |
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Idea of the Painter, Sculptor, and Architect Chosen 672 published from the Superior Natural Beauty of Nature |
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192 | (1) |
| 1664-1665 |
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Observations on the Plans and Elevations of the Facade of the Louvre and Letter to Louis XIV |
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193 | (3) |
| 1666 |
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Surveyor's Report on the Condition of St Paul's Cathedral |
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196 | (1) |
| 1669 |
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Surveyor's Report on the Condition of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury |
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197 | (1) |
| c.1669 written; |
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The Manuscript of the Anecdotes of the Life of 1810 published J.D. Cassini |
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198 | (1) |
| 1671 |
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History of the August and Venerable Church of Chartres |
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198 | (1) |
| 1672 |
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Description of the Grotto of Versailles |
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199 | (4) |
| 1670's |
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203 | (1) |
| 1673 |
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The Ten Books of Vitruvius, Corrected and Translated with Notes and Figures |
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204 | (7) |
| 1675 |
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211 | (8) |
| 1678 |
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Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz |
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Civil Architecture, Orthogonal and Oblique |
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219 | (7) |
| after 1678 written; |
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Civil Architecture 1737 published |
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226 | (6) |
| 1681 |
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Sébastien le Prêtre, seigneur de Vauban |
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232 | (1) |
| 1680's |
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Sébastien le Prêtre, seigneur de Vauban |
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Some Maxims That Are Good to Observe for All Those Who Build |
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232 | (4) |
| 1682 |
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The Antique Buildings of Rome |
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236 | (4) |
| 1683 |
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The Ordonnance of the Five Species of Columns |
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240 | (11) |
| 1685 written; |
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The Gardens of Epicurus 1692 published |
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251 | (1) |
| 1689 |
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252 | (1) |
| 1691 |
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Charles Augustin D'Aviler |
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253 | (3) |
| 1699 |
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Jean-François Felibien des Avaux |
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Dissertation Touching upon Ancient Architecture and Gothic Architecture |
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256 | (1) |
| 1699 |
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François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon |
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The Adventures of Télémaque |
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257 | (3) |
| 1702 |
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A Critical Report on Architecture, Containing the True and False Architecture |
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260 | (5) |
| 1710 |
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Abbé Jean-Louis de Cordemoy |
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Extract from a Letter by the Author....to the Remarks of M. Frézier, Ingénieur Ordinaire du Roy, proffered in the Journal de Trévoux in the Month of September |
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265 | (1) |
| 1711 |
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Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury |
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Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times |
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266 | (7) |
| 1712 |
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273 | (7) |
| 1721 |
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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach |
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Outline of a Historical Architecture |
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280 | (2) |
| 1724-1727 |
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain |
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282 | (8) |
| 1725 |
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Treatise on Perspective with Some Remarks on Architecture |
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290 | (3) |
| 1728 |
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The Villas of the Ancients |
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293 | (3) |
| 1728 |
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New Principles of Gardening |
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296 | (4) |
| 1731 |
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Moral Essays: Epistle to Lord Burlington |
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300 | (4) |
| 1736 |
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304 | (4) |
| 1737-1739 |
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The Theory and Practice of Stone Cutting and Wood Working |
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308 | (2) |
| 1738 |
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A Theoretical and Critical Dissertation on the Orders of Architecture |
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310 | (3) |
| 1741 |
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A Report on Gothic Architecture |
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313 | (3) |
| 1745 |
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316 | (1) |
| 1748 |
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Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu |
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317 | (5) |
| 1752-1757 |
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322 | (8) |
| 1753 |
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330 | (3) |
| 1753 |
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333 | (7) |
| 1754 |
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'Supplication to the Goldsmiths', Mercure de France |
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340 | (2) |
| 1755 |
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342 | (1) |
| 1755 |
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343 | (1) |
| 1756 |
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344 | (2) |
| 1757 |
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Designs for Chinese Buildings |
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346 | (4) |
| 1757 |
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Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful |
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350 | (8) |
| 1758, revised 1770 |
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The Ruins of the most Beautiful Monuments of Greece |
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358 | (4) |
| 1759 |
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Count Francesco Algarotti |
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Letter to a Gentlemen in Venice |
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362 | (1) |
| 1759 |
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363 | (3) |
| 1759 |
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Chambers A Treatise on Civil Architecture |
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366 | (1) |
| 1762 |
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Follow-up on my First Dissertation on How to Decorate Apartments |
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367 | (1) |
| 1762 |
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann |
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Remarks on the Architecture of the Ancients |
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368 | (4) |
| 1765 |
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Observations on Architecture |
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372 | |
| 1766 |
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'My Say on Architecture' and 'A Brief Corollary on What Went Before' |
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373 | (3) |
| 1769 |
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi |
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Diverse Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys |
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376 | (1) |
| 1769 |
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A Report on the Most Important Objects in Architecture |
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377 | (8) |
| 1770 |
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Letter from an Architectural Engraver to Monsieur Patte |
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385 | (1) |
| 1770 |
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386 | (2) |
| 1771 |
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388 | (8) |
| 1771 |
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Critical Observations on the Buildings and Improvements of London |
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396 | (2) |
| 1772 |
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Dissertation on Oriental Gardening |
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398 | (1) |
| 1772 |
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Letter to a Gentleman Who Had Objected to Certain Parts of his Treatise on Oriental Gardening |
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398 | (1) |
| 1772 |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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399 | (4) |
| 1774 |
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403 | (2) |
| 1776-1778 |
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker |
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405 | (2) |
| 1776 |
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407 | (3) |
| 1777 |
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Lessons on Architecture... continued by P. Patte |
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410 | (1) |
| 1777 composed; |
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Précis for a Work on Hospitals 1787 published |
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411 | (6) |
| 1780 |
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Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières |
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The Genius of Architecture |
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417 | (11) |
| 1781 |
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Principles of Civil Architecture |
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428 | (4) |
| 1783 |
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The French Order Found in Nature |
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432 | (4) |
| 1785 composed; |
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Antoine-Chrysostôme Quatremere de Quincy |
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On Egyptian 1803 published Architecture |
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436 | (5) |
| 1786 |
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Letter to the Building Committee of the Virginia State Capitol |
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441 | (1) |
| 1786 |
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Nicolas Caritat Marquis de Condorcet |
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442 | (2) |
| 1787 |
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Panopticon, or the Inspection House |
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444 | (11) |
| 1787 |
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Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux |
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Letters on the Architecture of the Ancients and Moderns |
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455 | (1) |
| 1788 |
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Reports on the Hospitals of Paris |
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456 | (2) |
| 1792 |
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'On Picturesque Beauty', Three Essays |
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458 | (1) |
| 1797 |
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Dictionary of the Fine Arts of Design |
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459 | (8) |
| 1798 |
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An Essay on British Cottage Architecture |
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467 | (3) |
| 1793-1799 |
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A Treatise on Architecture |
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470 | (5) |
| 1801 |
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Critical Analysis of the Construction of the Pantheon Dome |
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475 | (1) |
| 1803 |
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Essay on Rural Architecture |
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476 | (3) |
| 1802-1805 |
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Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand |
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A Précis of the Lessons in Architecture Given at the Polytechnic School |
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479 | (9) |
| 1804 |
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Concerning Architecture Seen From the Point of View of Art, of Morals and Legislation |
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488 | (8) |
| 1805 |
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On the Impotence of Mathematics to Insure the Solidity of Buildings |
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496 | (1) |
| c.1810 |
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The Art of Seeing in the Fine Arts |
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497 | (5) |
| Bibliography and references |
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502 | (24) |
| Index |
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526 | |
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