BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
The success of the preceding Genevan editions of the Theatre des
instrumens mathematiques et mechaniques de Jacques Besson (1578
et 1579) prompted Claude Juge, who had financed and published them in
association with Jean de Laon, a master printer in Geneva, to ask Giulio
Paschali for the present Italian translation. Paschali says he based
it on the Latin edition of 1578, with new additions in subsequent editions
of the work, in French (1594 and 1596) and in German (1595). Hélène Vérin (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris) – 2009 Critical bibliography
Béroalde de Verville (1556-1626), Cahiers V.-L. Saulnier,
13, Paris, PENS, 1996.
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1981, pp. 47-69. |