Instrvmentorvm et machinarvm / Liber primus
Instrvmentorvm et machinarvm is a 1569 engineering treatise by the mathematician Jacques Besson, published in Orleans or thereabouts, presenting machines and devices for a technical readership. Its plates are fine engraved line drawings of hoists, water-raising wheels and lifting frames, many shown rotated on the page, with dense Latin captions above; a designer could draw on their crisp hatching and clear mechanical diagramming for vintage technical linework.
