Ten Books on Architecture: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ten Books on Architecture, credited to Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius), trans. by Morris Hicky Morgan (1859 - 1910), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of "Ten Books on Architecture" by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan; read by Fredrik Karlsson, proofed by Leni, and produced by Karen Merline. On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of the most important sources of modern knowledge of Roman building methods as well as the planning and design of structures, both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). He is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery. (Summary from Wikipedia.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ten Books on Architecture
• Author credits: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Vitruvius), trans. by Morris Hicky Morgan (1859 - 1910)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 9:34:47

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• classics
• architecture

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 00 - Translator's preface — 8:22
2. 01 - Book I, Preface and Chapter I — 20:56
3. 02 - Book I, Chapter II-III — 11:15
4. 03 - Book I, Chapter IV-V — 17:25
5. 04 - Book I, Chapter VI-VII — 16:15
6. 05 - Book II, Introduction and Chapter I-II — 16:52
7. 06 - Book II, Chapter III-VI — 15:04
8. 07 - Book II, Chapter VII-VIII — 21:29
9. 08 - Book II, Chapter IX-X — 16:26
10. 09 - Book III, Introduction and Chapter I-II — 16:31
11. 10 - Book III, Chapter III-IV — 13:07
12. 11 - Book III, Chapter V — 12:30
13. 12 - Book IV, Introduction and Chapters I-II — 15:57
14. 13 - Book IV, Chapter III-V — 12:05
15. 14 - Book IV, Chapter VI-IX — 12:36
16. 15 - Book V, Introduction and Chapter I-III — 16:55
17. 16 - Book V, Chapter IV-V — 12:18
18. 17 - Book V, Chapter VI-IX — 17:05
19. 18 - Book V, Chapter X-XII — 11:54
20. 19 - Book VI, Introduction and Chapter 1 — 15:16
21. 20 - Book VI, Chapter II-V — 14:42
22. 21 - Book VI, Chapter VI-VIII — 16:31
23. 22 - Book VII, Introduction — 13:56
24. 23 - Book VII, Chapter I-III — 14:45

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