Book VI
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Book VI is one of the ten books of Vitruvius’ ancient Roman treatise *De architectura*, focusing on residential architecture, building design, and the principles of comfort and proportion in dwellings.
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| Book VI canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Book VI Context triple: [De architectura, hasPart, Book VI]
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Book VI
Book VI is the final section of Carl Friedrich Gauss’s *Disquisitiones Arithmeticae*, focusing on the theory of binary quadratic forms and their composition.
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Book VI
Book VI is a section of Augustine’s theological and philosophical work *The City of God* that continues his critique of pagan religion and Roman culture.
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Book VI
Book VI is one of the later sections of John Gower’s Middle English poem *Vox Clamantis*, contributing to its moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society.
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Book VI
Book VI is one of the later books of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divine Institutes*, continuing his systematic defense and explanation of Christian doctrine.
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Book VI
Book VI of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section that analyzes the intellectual virtues, especially practical wisdom (phronesis), and their role in ethical decision-making.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book VI Target entity description: Book VI is one of the ten books of Vitruvius’ ancient Roman treatise *De architectura*, focusing on residential architecture, building design, and the principles of comfort and proportion in dwellings.
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Book VI
Book VI is a section of Leonardo Bruni’s historical work "History of the Florentine People," continuing his humanist narrative of Florence’s political and civic development.
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Book VI
Book VI is a section of Augustine’s theological and philosophical work *The City of God* that continues his critique of pagan religion and Roman culture.
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Book VI
Book VI is one of the later books of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divine Institutes*, continuing his systematic defense and explanation of Christian doctrine.
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Book VI
Book VI is the concluding section of Nicolaus Copernicus’s seminal astronomical work *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium*, in which he further develops and applies his heliocentric model.
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Book VI
Book VI of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section that analyzes the intellectual virtues, especially practical wisdom (phronesis), and their role in ethical decision-making.
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Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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part of treatise ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
define standards for comfortable dwellings
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relate human needs to architectural design ⓘ |
| associatedWork | De architectura ⓘ |
| author | Vitruvius ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| discusses |
Greek house plans
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Roman house plans ⓘ distribution of rooms in houses ⓘ farm buildings and rural estates ⓘ orientation of rooms according to sun and winds ⓘ principles of healthful site selection for houses ⓘ proportions of rooms ⓘ social status and house design ⓘ villa design ⓘ |
| field |
architectural theory
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architecture ⓘ |
| followedBy | Book VII ⓘ |
| follows | Book V ⓘ |
| genre | architectural treatise ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book VI, Chapter 1
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Book VI, Chapter 2 ⓘ Book VI, Chapter 3 ⓘ Book VI, Chapter 4 ⓘ Book VI, Chapter 5 ⓘ Book VI, Chapter 6 ⓘ Book VI, Chapter 7 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | primary source on Roman domestic architecture ⓘ |
| influenced | Renaissance architectural theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Greek architectural practice ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | technical prose ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Greek houses
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Roman houses ⓘ climate and orientation of houses ⓘ comfort in dwellings ⓘ country houses ⓘ domestic buildings ⓘ private houses ⓘ proportion in architecture ⓘ residential architecture ⓘ urban houses ⓘ |
| numberInSeries | 6 ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Liber VI ⓘ |
| partOf | De architectura ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
late Roman Republic
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linked to:
Late Roman Republic
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| workContainedIn | Ten Books on Architecture ⓘ |
| workOf | ancient Roman architecture ⓘ |
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