I have therefore thought that it would be a worthy and very useful thing to reduce the whole of this great art to a complete and orderly form of pres… - Vitruvius

These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principal of the pseudodipteral octastyle.

There will still be the question why Tuscany, although it abounds in hot springs, does not furnish a powder out of which, on the same principle, a wall can be made which will set fast under water. ...The properties of the soil are as different and unlike as are the various countries. ...Hence it is not in all the places where boiling springs of hot water abound that there is the same combination of favourable circumstances... For things are produced in accordance with the will of nature; not to suit man's pleasure, but as it were by a chance distribution.

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry, Propriety, and Economy.