Ephesian Daphnis, Ictinus, Philo, Cossutius, Gaius Mucianus Rediscovery Vitruvius' De architectura was "rediscovered" in 1414 by the Florentine humanist Poggio Bracciolini in the library of Saint Gall Abbey. Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) publicised it in his seminal treatise on architecture, De re aedificatoria (c. 1450). The first known Latin printed edition was by Fra Giovanni Sulpitius in Rome, 1486. Translations followed in Italian (Cesare Cesariano, 1521), French (Jean Martin, 1547), English, German (Walther H. Ryff, 1543) and Spanish and several other languages. The original illustrations had been lost and the first illustrated edition was published in Venice in 1511 by Fra Giovanni Giocondo, with woodcut illustrations based on descriptions in the text. Later in the 16th-century Andrea Palladio provided illustrations for Daniele Barbaro's commentary on Vitruvius, published in Italian and Latin versions. The most famous illustration is probably Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. The surviving ruins of Roman antiquity, the Roman Forum, temples, theatres, triumphal arches and their reliefs and statues offered visual examples of the descriptions in the Vitruvian text. Printed and illustrated editions of De Architectura inspired Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical architecture. Filippo Brunelleschi, for example, invented a new type of hoist to lift the large stones for the dome of the cathedral in Florence and was inspired by De Architectura as well as surviving Roman monuments such as the Pantheon and the Baths of Diocletian. Notable editions Latin 1495–1496 1543 1800 Augustus Rode, Berlin 1857 Teubner Edition by Valentin Rose 1899 Teubner Edition 1912 Teubner edition at The Latin Library Bill Thayer, transcription of the 1912 Teubner Edition Italian Cesare Cesariano, 1521, Como, Italy, includes illustrations by Cesare Cesariano Danielle Barbaro, includes illustration by Andrea Palladio French Jean Martin, 1547 Claude Perrault, 1673 Auguste Choisy, 1909 English Henry Wotton, 1624 Joseph Gwilt, 1826 Bill Thayer transcription of the Gwilt 1826 Edition Morris H. Morgan, with illustrations prepared by Herbert Langford Warren, 1914, Harvard University Press Frank Granger, Loeb Edition, 1931 Ingrid Rowland, 2001 Thomas Gordon Smith, The Monacelli Press (5 January 2004) Roman technology Books VIII, IX and X form the basis of much of what we know about Roman technology, now augmented by archaeological studies of extant remains, such as the water mills at Barbegal in France. The other major source of information is the Naturalis Historia compiled by Pliny the Elder much later in c. 75 AD. Machines The work is important for its descriptions of