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About some Technical Sketches of Villard de Honnecourt's Manuscript.: New Light on Deleted Diagrams: An Unknown Drawing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Roland Bechmann
Roland Bechmann
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Some of the drawings of the Villard de Honnecourt's manuscript—of which Lassus and Willis gave the first comprehensive editions in the middle of the nineteenth Century—are little technical sketches whose captions do not always make clear the processes that they are intended to explain.

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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 341 - 361
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1988

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