Vitruvius Quote

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.

Chapter IV, Sec. 2 - De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC) - Book I

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is ...

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is ...

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is ...

Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is ...