LEFT Surveying from G.B.Agricola, De Mensuris & Ponderibus Romanorum Atque Graecorum 1550. published in Basel in 1550.

RIGHT G.B.Spolverini, La Coltivazione del Riso published in Verona in 1758. The fine engraving is by Domienico Cunego after Tiepolo's pupil Francesco Lorenzi.

GALILEO, GEOMETRIC AND MILITARY COMPASS

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY OPTIONS

 

 

SINGLES

DUPAINE DE MONTESSON, L'Art de lever les plans 1763

BARTOLI, 1564, a classic of surveying

OTTAVIO FABRI, Squadra Mobile Venice 1598 (the Moving Square)

Philippe Danfrie, Declaartion de l'Usage Graphique, Paris 1597

A.Mallet, La Geometrie Pratique Paris 1702

Leonard Digges woodcut illustration from Pantometria, London 1591

See also Scientific Propositions in a Landscape