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Archimedes

Quoted in De Architectura, by Vitruvius

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Archimedes

Author

Vitruvius

Source

De Architectura

Language

Greek

Time

212 BC 210s BC 3rd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Archimedes. Stated this after stepping into a bath and noticed that the water level rose. c. 212 BC.

Current Citation

Archimedes. Quoted in Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. Dover Publications, 1960.

Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.

Vitruvius

De Architectura

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Artistic development Artists

Author

Vitruvius

Source

De Architectura

Language

Latin

Time

70 BC 70s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.