Comment on Argument_51: Your book seems to be quite similar to mine. As my book is called “Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places”, I used the word “military in the word search”. Both of our books seem to discuss ways to strengthen places. They have been written in roughly the same time, as my book…
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The title of François Blondel’s book is « Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places ». In the second task I discussed that the book contains concepts about the fortification of architectural spaces. So, my initial instinct was to use the word “fortification” in Ask Alice. As I expected, many books with similar titles and contents popped up…
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François Blondel wrote the book «Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier les places» in 1688. Translated to English, the title of François Blondel’s book means “new way of fortifying places”. If you also take the background of the author into account, he probably wrote the book as a theoretical text about architectural spaces. The author was at…
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François Blondel – Nouvelle maniere de fortifier les places (1686) I chose these two pages because I liked the illustrations and how they introduce the second part of the book. I was surprised about the size of the book as I expected it to be larger than 17cm.