Deacon takes his guiding idea from one of my favourite chapters of a classic Chinese philosophical text from the fourth century B.

FORBES: Book Of The Year: The Return Of Teleology

C. copy of an original text believed to date from 1900 B.

FORBES: To Walk Again

The only surviving Roman text on architecture was the treatise written by Vitruvius in the first century B.

WSJ: Palladio & His Legacy, at the Morgan Library & Museum | By Ada Louise Huxtable