[Surveying] - CATANEO Girolamo. Dell'arte di misurare con la vista. Brescia, Domenico Gromi, 1682.
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small 4to mm. 200 x 150, 2 parts pp. 142 and 117, lacking last bl. Many woodcut figures in the text and some double plates numbered with the text. Small printing device in the title page. Contemporary sewing binding. Stamp of extinct library in the titlepage, the title once dubbed.
Late edition of this practical geometry text and surveying, appeared for the first time in 1572 in Brescia. The first part is devoted to the basics of practical geometry, and the second to its applications in the measurement of the buildings, but especially in rural practice: wine measurements, water, grains of corn. Girolamo Cattaneo [active between 1540 and 1584], from Novara, was a military engineer and architect, and was active mainly in the Brescia, where he bought renown; published several treatises on ballistics, fortifications and military art; The present work has, however, essentially practical and textbook.
Su di lui cfr. D.B.I., XXII/pp. 471-3, e Promis, Ingg. Militari in Piemonte, pp. 531-5. Riccardi, I/coll. 316-7, n. 7 [altre edizioni]: "E' un trattato elementare di geometria pratica più esteso che completo".
Condition Report: Some traces of wear and slight spotting in the text.
Late edition of this practical geometry text and surveying, appeared for the first time in 1572 in Brescia. The first part is devoted to the basics of practical geometry, and the second to its applications in the measurement of the buildings, but especially in rural practice: wine measurements, water, grains of corn. Girolamo Cattaneo [active between 1540 and 1584], from Novara, was a military engineer and architect, and was active mainly in the Brescia, where he bought renown; published several treatises on ballistics, fortifications and military art; The present work has, however, essentially practical and textbook.
Su di lui cfr. D.B.I., XXII/pp. 471-3, e Promis, Ingg. Militari in Piemonte, pp. 531-5. Riccardi, I/coll. 316-7, n. 7 [altre edizioni]: "E' un trattato elementare di geometria pratica più esteso che completo".
Condition Report: Some traces of wear and slight spotting in the text.
