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附录A 英文文摘 BRIDGE ENGINEERING AND AESTHETICS Evolvement of bridge Engineering,brief review Among the early documented reviews of construction materials and structure types are the books of Marcus Vitruvios Pollio in the first century B.C.The basic principles of statics were developed by the Greeks, and were exemplified in works and applications by Leonardo da Vinci,Cardeno, and Galileo. In the fifteenth and sixteenth century, engineers seemed to be unaware of this record, and relied solely on experience and tradition for building bridges and aqueducts. The state of the art changed rapidly toward