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Instruments of the imagination : a history of drawing instruments in Britain 1600 - 1850
Although this is essentially a study of the instruments themselves, this selection of instruments has been chosen to allow the many and varied aspects that they can reveal of a wider world of relationships between the makers of instruments and their books published describing their use to a much wid...
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| Document Type: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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[Nr Fladbury]
: Dawes Trust Ltd
, 2009
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Author Notes: | [Howard Dawes] |
| Summary: | Although this is essentially a study of the instruments themselves, this selection of instruments has been chosen to allow the many and varied aspects that they can reveal of a wider world of relationships between the makers of instruments and their books published describing their use to a much wider public. We examine instruments of remarkable craftsmanship for precision drawing, to the more basic tools, often made in wood, for builders or designers of sundials. These instruments, often made of engraved paper scales laid down on oak were provided at a price that the builder could afford and of course with the passage of time it tends to be only the important and expensive instruments that have survived. With the changes in fashion at the end of the 17th century and the return to Palladianism, innovations were made to assist architects in accurately recording or designing buildings in accordance with the strict mathematical rules |
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| Item Description: | Verfasserangabe vom Schutzumschlag |
| Physical Description: | 136 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0955108918 9780955108914 |
