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Alberti, Leon Battista. "Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance." In Descriptio Urbis Romae. Vol. 56. Edition critique, traduction et commentaire par Martine Furno et Mario Carpo. Geneva: Droz, 2000.

Benjamin, Walter. L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproduction mécanisée, 1936. Reprinted in Écrits français. Edited by J - M Monnoyer. Paris: Gallimard, 1991, pp. 117-192. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechnical Reproduction." In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Translated by Harry Zohn. Edited by Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 1968. ISBN: 0805202412.

Carpo, Mario. Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory. Cambridge, MA, and London, England: The MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 0262032880.

———. "How do You Imitate a Building That You Have Never Seen? Printed Images, Ancient Models, and Handmade Drawings in Renaissance Architectural Theory." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 64, no. 2 (2001): 223-234.

———. "Drawing with Numbers: Geometry and Numeracy in Early-Modern Architectural Design." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 62, no. 4 (2003): 448-469.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Ivins, William, Jr. Prints and Visual Communication. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. Reprint, The MIT Press, 1992.

Koyré, Alexandre. "Du monde de l''à peu près' à l'univers de la précision." Critique 28 (1948). Reprinted in Cahiers des Annales. Etudes d'histoire de la pensée philosophique. Vol. 19. Paris: A. Colin, 1961, pp. 311-329. ISBN: 2070712788.

Krautheimer, Richard. "Introduction to an 'Iconography of Medieval Architecture." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes V (1942): 1-33. Reprinted in Studies in Early Christian, Medieval, and Renaissance Art. New York: New York University Press, 1969, pp. 115-150. ISBN: 0340118628.

Lotz, Wolfgang. "Sull'unità di misura nei disegni di architettura del Cinquecento." Bollettino del Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio 21 (1979): 223-33.

Smith, David Eugene. History of Mathematics. Vol. 2.  Boston and New York: Ginn and Co., 1925. Reprinted in: Special Topics of Elementary Mathematics. New York: Dover, 1958.

Stafford, Barbara Maria, and Frances Terpak. Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2001.

Thoenes, Christof. "Il modello ligneo per San Pietro ed il metodo progettuale di Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane." Annali di Architettura, Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio 9 (1997): 186-199.

———. "Zur Frage des Massstabs in Architekturzeichnungen der Renaissance." In Studien zur Künstlerzeichnung. Edited by Stefan Kummer and Georg Satzinger. Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje Verlag, 1990, pp. 38-55. ISBN: 3775703063.