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The eighteenth century was dominated, from the point of view of technical drawing, by some important events, such as the activity of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (the father of Descriptive Geometry), the first steps of industry and the utilization of orthographic projections, the first encyclopedic books and the growing use of drawing as a documentary tool for use by scientists.
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Rovida, E. (2013). The Eighteenth Century. In: Machines and Signs. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5407-2_5
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