Of the Compass and Ruler

Name: Des Circkelsz und Richtscheyts
Author: Lautensack, Heinrich

Des Circkelsz und Richtscheyts

Lautensack, Heinrich

German

1618

160 pages

66 images

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First Translation

No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.

Heinrich Lautensack's 'Des Circkels unnd Richtscheyts' (1564, with later editions like 1618) is a significant German Renaissance treatise on geometry and perspective. While it is frequently cited and analyzed in English-language scholarly works on the history of mathematics and art (such as those by Kirsti Andersen), no record of a complete English translation exists in the UNESCO Index Translationum, Open Library, or Google Books. Existing English literature consists of academic studies or partial excerpts rather than a full translation of the German text.

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Step into the workshop of a 17th-century master where art is a divine science and precision is the path to prosperity. Heinrich Lautensack’s manual dismantles the 'freehand' guesswork of the unskilled, offering a rigorous geometric toolkit for mastering everything from complex architectural perspective to the secret proportions of the human form.