Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, Varia commensuración para la escultura y arquitectura (Seville, 1585-1587)

A working silversmith's textbook of geometry, proportion, anatomy and design, privileged by Philip II in 1585 after the manuscript burned and was written again. Its argument is that antiquity knew no difference between the sculptor, the architect and the silversmith, and that the first thing needed to work silver and gold is geometry. It was still being reprinted from the author's own plates in 1795, and the 1795 printer used the book to expose an earlier editor's false claim.