LEFT
Surveying from G.B.Agricola, De Mensuris & Ponderibus
Romanorum Atque Graecorum 1550. published in Basel in 1550.
RIGHT
G.B.Spolverini, La Coltivazione del Riso published
in Verona in 1758. The fine engraving is by Domienico Cunego after
Tiepolo's pupil Francesco Lorenzi.
GALILEO, GEOMETRIC AND MILITARY COMPASS
TWENTIETH
CENTURY OPTIONS
SINGLES
DUPAINE
DE MONTESSON, L'Art de lever les plans 1763
BARTOLI,
1564, a classic of surveying
OTTAVIO
FABRI, Squadra Mobile Venice 1598 (the Moving Square)
Philippe
Danfrie, Declaartion de l'Usage Graphique, Paris 1597
A.Mallet,
La Geometrie Pratique Paris
1702
Leonard Digges woodcut illustration from Pantometria, London 1591
See also Scientific Propositions in a Landscape
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