Le premier livre des instruments mathematiques mechaniques
Le premier livre des instruments mathematiques mechaniques is a late sixteenth-century treatise on mechanical and mathematical instruments, written by Jean Errard and printed at Nancy in 1584. Its pages are engraved plates of machines, with captions in Latin and French set along the edges, and the sideways-printed plates show water wheels, pumps and mechanical devices drawn in fine hatched line. A designer might draw on their clean, diagrammatic linework and the way machines are shown in cut-away and perspective views.
