Geometry, Proportion and the Art of Lutherie: A study of the use and aesthetic significance of geomnetry and numerical proportion in the design of European bowed and plucked string instruments in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries - Coates, Kevin 1950- (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1985)
Keywords: 16th Century (1501-1600); 17th Century (1601-1700); 18th Century (1701-1800); Musical instrument makers; String instrument; Geometry; Mathematics