Inside Out Library

Arte y uso de arquitectura

Lorenzo de San Nicolás, Fray, 1595-1679, Euclid. Elements. Book 1. Spanish, Barco López, Plácido · 1796 · Madrid : Por D. Placido Barco López · 111 pictures

A Spanish builder's manual by Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolás, first written in the seventeenth century and reprinted in Madrid in 1796 by Plácido Barco López, bound with a Spanish Euclid for masons and architects. The 119 woodcut diagrams show lettered geometric constructions, vault and arch stereotomy, stair ramps and squinch layouts, with dotted projection lines usable as line-art motifs.

Architecture · Building · Geometry

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0