Make comment on this entry Fields, Margaret. Practical Mathematics of Roman Times. Surveys Roman mathematics. Some of the most interesting examples come from the De Architectura of Vitruvius, which discusses principles of symmetry and proportion and how to use them in architecture. Vitruvius goes as far as how to correct for an optical illusion on the capitals of columns.
Roman tunnels are equally impressive.
Roman sundials were relatively unsophisticated. Reprinted in Swetz, Frank J., From Five Fingers to Infinity . Make comment on this entry Kemp, Martin. Discusses theories of how art appears in biology. Both Thompson and Cook were well aware of the mathematical difficulties involved in thoroughly understanding the phenomena they wrote of.