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HISTORY OF ENGINEERING.

Book I.

ment to enter the bath; and in all well regulated workshops, it ought to be made a duty ofthe first consideration, to adopt habits of cleanliness: were this done, health would beassured, and longevity be much more frequently met with.

At Bath the Romans had several establishments for bathing ; hypocausts and tubulatedtiles are constantly met with when fresh ground is broken. This city in the Itineraries ofAntoninus and Richard of Cirencester is called Aquas Solis; and there are found alsoaltars to Sulinis Minerva, the Solar Minerva, or the Minerva Medica, which clearlyindicate that it was much resorted to by invalids in those days.

Baths at Baden-weiler , a plan of which is given in the edition of Vitruvius published atBerlin by Rode, contains a set of baths for men and women, with the apartments required bytlio.se who attended them. A, was the position of the hypocaust, B, the furnace, C, the

Fig.138.

BATHS AT BADLP*WEILEK.

cahlaria; D, vaulted sudatories; E, tepidaria; F, frigidaria; G, rooms which hadfloors, like those of the caldaria, heated by the stoves ; II, vestibules ; I, elaeothesia, andK, exedrae. This arrangement forms one of the best illustrations to the description givenus by Vitruvius , although upon so small a scale.

Baths at Stura .—Near Antium, at the mouth of the small river Stura, now called theConca, are the remains of some baths built in the sea. A, is a grand court surrounded by