Fabrica et usus instrumenti chorographici. Das ist newe planimetrische Bechreibung wie man mit einem leichten und geringen Instrument alle Stäte, Gärten, Weyer und Landschafften jedes in sein gewisse Lägerstatt und Proportion auffreissen und verjüngen soll
Leonhard Zubler's 1607 German surveying manual, printed in Strasbourg for practitioners who needed to map towns, gardens and estates with a simple instrument. Its woodcut plates show surveyors working outdoors, sighting across fields and hills with triangulation lines drawn over the landscape, and a designer could borrow their diagrammatic layouts for maps, plans and schematic site drawings.
