Task 4: Connections François Blondel – Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places (1686) The first book in which I could directly find several similarities was by Francois Blondel; Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places. It was published only one year before L’experience de l’architecture militaire, written in French and deals with the subject of military…
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Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 For the third task of ‘friends with an old book i tried to find the topic which makes the book ‘L’expérience de l’architecture militaire” special or interesting. Of course, as the title already claims, it is about military architecture. But it isn’t only a…
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Full title: L’experience de l’architecture militaire The experience of military architecture, where one thoroughly learns the method of working in the squares: the particular knowledge of materials suitable for building, the thoisé of the masonry and the aliquots of land, with that of the wood and the frameworks: together the science of finding the water…