Type of drawing used to visually communicate how something functions or is constructed
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A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark, S. Spirito, Sassia hospital Rome, c. 1640. Coloured drawing by C. Rossi, 1930.
Rossi, Carlo, active 1930.Date: 1930Reference: 16021i- E-books
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Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration; calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artisans, and set to view in four parts . Containing, I. Preliminaries or the foundations of the several arts above-mentioned. II. The various orders of architecture, laid down and improved from the best masters; with the ways of making draughts of buildings, gardens, groves, fountains, &c. the laying down of maps, cities, lordships, farms, &c. III. The doctrine and rules of mensuration of all kinds, illustrated by select examples in building, gardening, timber, &c. IV. Exact tables of mensuration, shewing, by inspection, the superficial and solid contents of all kinds of bodies, without the fatigue of arithmetical computation: to which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in selling timber by measure. The whole exemplisy'd with a large number of folio copper plates, curiously engraven by the best hands. By Batty Langley.
Langley, Batty 1696-1751.Date: 1729- Books
Description d'un graphometre universel : nouvel instrument, propre à dessiner toutes sortes d'objets de la manière la plus exacte, et la plus prompte. I. partie. / inventé par A.G. Eckhardt, membre de la Société Royale à Londres. Avec figures.
Eckhardt, A. G.Date: 1778
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The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing a variety of subjects studied there. Line engraving by G. Herth after G. Stein.
Stein, Gottfried, -1790.Reference: 21390i
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A cross-section through a mill which pulverises quinine bark c. 1640. Engraving by C.
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