In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning.
Numerous architectural treatises were based in part or inspired by Vitruvius, beginning with Leon Battista Alberti\'s De re aedificatoria (1485)..
The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fuelled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods.
Because it is the only antique treatise on Architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars.
Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions.
In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning
