The towers themselves must be either round or polygonal. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines, for the battering rams pound their angles to pieces but in the case of round towers they can do no harm being engaged as it were in driving wedges to their center.


Chapter V, Sec. 5 - De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC) - Book I

Vitruvius Quotes

The towers themselves must be either round or polygonal. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines, for the battering rams pound their...

The towers themselves must be either round or polygonal. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines, for the battering rams pound their...

The towers themselves must be either round or polygonal. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines, for the battering rams pound their...

The towers themselves must be either round or polygonal. Square towers are sooner shattered by military engines, for the battering rams pound their...