Fabrica et usus instrumenti chorographici : quo mira facilitate describuntur regiones & singulae partes earum, veluti montes, urbes, castella, pagi, propugnacula, & similia : additae sunt, praeter duo instrumenta homogenea XV. formae aneae, fabricam & usum instrumentorum quasi in synopsi proponentes (1607)
INSTRVMENTI CHOR O GRAPHICI, Sec. 5 C A P V T II* De lnfirumenti fabrica. … N Strvmenti praefentis fabrica hjeceflo: Ajjerem planum cx ligno duro ac folido tibi para- ^er% to,fefquipedem circiter longum & latum: craf- fum vero fefqui circiter pollicem : fub hoc facito Fulcrum Tulerunt. itidem ligneum, fedaltum tresvel quartior pedes, habens fuperne,vbi Affer imponendus…
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