Johann Samuel Hallens, Professors der Historie bei dem Königlichen Preussischen Kadettenchore in Berlin, Werkstäte der heutigen Künste, oder, Die neue Kunsthistorie : mit Kupfern und Vignetten
Johann Samuel Halle's 1761 German work Werkstäte der heutigen Künste, published in Berlin and Leipzig, is an illustrated survey of trades and industrial arts, written by a history professor at the Prussian cadet corps for an educated readership. Its copperplate plates lay out tools, furnaces, distilling apparatus and workshop vessels in orderly lettered groups, each object labelled with a key letter, so a designer can borrow the clean, diagrammatic arrangement of technical objects on a page.
