GEOMETRY AND metrology -Zubler, Leonard.

GEOMETRY AND metrology -Zubler, Leonard.
Fabrica et usus instrumenti chorographici: That is, Newe Planimetric description: How to open and rejuvenate with a light and small instrument all the sites, gardens, weyher and landscapes, each in its own place and proportion. With used figurative title border, full page. Copper of arms on title verso and 13
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Basel, King, 1607. Kl.-4°. Bulletin, 39 p. Modern half parchment ribbon using a 17th century foil print as cover paper

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VD17 12:163800L - Stafleu/C. Z 292 - Poggendorff II, 1420 - Ornamental engraving

Berlin 1714 - Pewter (instruments) 597th - First edition. - Leonhard Zubler (1563-1611) was a goldsmith in Zurich and worked mainly as a manufacturer of measuring instruments and sundials. Following in the footsteps of Alberti and Dürer, he was mainly concerned with central perspective, he constructed corresponding instruments, some of which are regarded as precursors of the well-known Bramer measuring instruments. The present treatise presents an instrument for mechanical forward cutting, a "semicircular device with 2 alidade and a 3rd ruler connecting them" (Zinner). - The whole side. Copper shows all details of the measuring instrument, the other illustrations with measuring processes in scenic staffage. - Slightly browned, somewhat stained and just trimmed in places. - Title with feather samples and year in lower margin.
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