La geometrie pratique : diviseé en quatre livres ... : ouvrage enrichi de cinq cens plances gravées en taille-douce
A 1702 Paris geometry treatise by Allain Manesson-Mallet, published by Anisson, teaching practical surveying and measurement to students and engineers. Its copper-plate engravings pair formal garden and palace views, such as Clagny and the Tuileries parterre, with diagrams of circles, arcs and surveying tools. A designer can take from them the clean hatched line work, precise architectural perspective and the layout logic of geometric gardens.
