The British Journal for the History of Science

Table of Contents - 1988 - Volume 21, Issue 03  

Research Article

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

Roland Bechmanna1

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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.