"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings."
-Marcus V. Pollio
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"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.“
-Marcus V. Pollio
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"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."
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