Bowles's Practical geometry: or, a new and easy method of treating that art. Whereby the Practice of it is rendered plain and familiar, and the Student is directed in the most easy Manner through the several Parts and Progressions of it. A work highly necessary for painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, Statuaries, Jewellers, Tapestry-Workers, And others concerned in Designing. The Whole illustrated with Eighty-Two Copper-Plates. Wherein, Besides the several Geometrical Figures, Are contained many Examples of Landscapes, Pieces of Architecture, Perspective, Draughts of Figures, Ruins, &c. Translated from the French of Monsieur Seb. Le Clerc.
- Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.
- Date:
- [1783]
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About this work
Also known as
Pratique de la géometrie. English
Publication/Creation
London : printed for the proprietor Carington Bowles, at his map and print warehouse, No. 69, St. Paul's Church Yard, [1783]
Physical description
[2],159,[2],172-195,[5]p. : ill. ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The sixth edition.
References note
ESTC T79458
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.