His manuscript Tractaet van Dyckagie is seen as a warning against fundamental engineering errors in waterstaat water management, from which lessons can still be learned today.
He was the son of Nicolaas Vierling, clerk of the council and audit office of the Count of Nassau, and Wilhelmina van Vlyet.
In the area surrounding Steenbergen, more than 4,000 hectares of new land was reclaimed between 1548 and 1554 by diking the buntings and salt marshes around the city.
Vierlingh constantly campaigned for the importance of good dykes in his Brabant native region, which was occasionally severely affected by flooding.
Because this edition was sold out for a long time but the content was still popular, the Dutch Association of Coastal and Riparian Works (VBKO) decided on a photomechanical reprint in 1973.