Jardins de Versailles en général

The growing demands being made of the design of gardens meant that from the early-17th century a knowledge of mathematics, geometry, optics and perspective became increasingly indispensable. Views of gardens were used as examples in the influential geometry textbook by Manesson-Mallet.

Jardins de Versailles en général, copperplate engraving, 1702; image source: Manesson-Mallet, Allain: La géométrie pratique, Paris 1702, vol. 1, Tafel XI, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, https://www.zikg.eu/.