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Cosimo Bartoli ... Del modo di misvrare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi, le piante, le prouincie, le prospettiue, & tutte le altre cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini, secondo le uere regole d'Euclide, & de gli altri piu lodati scrittori

Bartoli, Cosimo, 1503-1572 · 1564 · In Venetia : Per Francesco Franceschi Sanese · 48 pictures

A 1564 Venetian treatise on surveying and geometry by Cosimo Bartoli, printed in Italian by Francesco Franceschi for practical use by surveyors and makers of maps and perspective. Its pictures are plain line diagrams of squares, rectangles and triangles with lettered corners and numbered sides, showing how measured figures are built up, which a designer could borrow for schematic or technical layouts.

Surveying · Geometry -- Early works to 1800

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