Diego López de Arenas, Breve compendio de la carpintería de lo blanco (Seville, 1727 impression)

A working Seville master carpenter put the geometry of the Andalusian timber roof into print — thirty-two chapters of template-squares, muqarnas clusters, land valuation, artillery calibre and sundials, written because disputes over measurement filled the courts. Its last table gives the pole altitudes of Mexico, Havana, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guatemala and a dozen more American places, and the author says why: the fleets carried carpenters, masons and gunners who might need them.