About the book: 2003 / The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius lived and worked in the second half of the 1st century. BC e. during the reign of Julius Caesar and Emperor Octavian Augustus. His treatise is an entire encyclopedia of the technical sciences of his time, combining the genres of practical guidance and generalizing practical work. For more than two thousand years, this famous work was rewritten, translated, commented on, being the foundation for the development of the theory of architecture in many countries of the world. This edition contains corrections and clarifications prepared by the outstanding Russian scientist, historian of science V.P. Zubov, provided by his daughter M. V. Zubova. The book is addressed to architects, historians of science, culture and art, and everyone interested in the classical heritage.