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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: THE FORUM AND BASILICA
CHAPTER II: THE TREASURY, PRISON, AND SENATE HOUSE
CHAPTER III: THE THEATRE: ITS SITE, FOUNDATIONS, AND ACOUSTICS
CHAPTER IV: HARMONICS
CHAPTER V: SOUNDING VESSELS IN THE THEATRE
CHAPTER VI: PLAN OF THE THEATRE
CHAPTER VII: GREEK THEATRES
CHAPTER VIII: ACOUSTICS OF THE SITE OF A THEATRE
CHAPTER IX: COLONNADES AND WALKS
CHAPTER X: BATHS
CHAPTER XI: THE
PALAESTRA
CHAPTER XII: HARBOURS, BREAKWATERS, AND SHIPYARDS
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2. We must also beware that it has not a southern exposure. When the sun shines full upon the rounded part of it, the air, being shut up in the curved enclosure and unable to circulate, stays there and becomes heated; and getting glowing hot it burns up, dries out, and impairs the fluids of the human body. For these reasons, sites which are unwholesome in such respects are to be avoided, and healthy sites selected.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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