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

Bartoli, Cosimo, 1503-1572 · 1589 · In Venetia : Per Francesco Franceschi Sanese · 167 pictures

A practical Italian manual on measuring distances, surfaces, solids, land and perspective according to Euclid, written by Cosimo Bartoli and printed in Venice by Francesco Franceschi in 1589 for surveyors, architects and engineers. The woodcuts are lettered geometric diagrams triangles, divided rectangles, numbered sides, and solids shaded with hatching and stipple useful as line-based schematic marks and figure labels.

Surveying · Measurement

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