Cum ergo et antiqui nostri inveniantur non minus quam Graeci fuisse magni architecti et nostra memoria satis multi, et ex his pauci praecepta edidissent, non putavi silendum, sed disposite singulis voluminibus de singulis exponeremus.
While, therefore, our predecessors are found, no less than the Greeks, to have been great architects, and sufficiently many in our own time, few of them have published their methods. Hence I thought we ought not to remain silent, but we should set forth methodically the various branches of the subject in separate volumes.
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