Comment: Argument_33 The first book I found is “La militare architettura” by Pietro Ruggiero. The book also deals with military architecture, like “Architectura militaris”. It has illustrations of the technical and geometrical aspects of this architecture. Moreover, the book is also divided into four chapters and shows the pictures only at the end.The two books…
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Comment: Argument_17 My book is called “Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla” by Giulio Troili. This roughly translates to “paradoxes for practicing perspective without knowing it”. It seems that our books have the same topics (perspective and geometry) and both function as teaching books on these topics. Additionally, both our books have a lot…
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12 La pratica di prospettiva As I was searching with the keyword “perspective” I found your book. It deals with quite similar topics than my book “Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla” by Giulio Troili. There are two aspects which can get compared between our books. Firstly, both authors were talking about perspectives and…
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Connection 1: Argument_68 While searching for connections between the book assigned to me and other books posted to this blog, your book was suggested to me after I refined my search results with keywords like 18th century and illustrations. After reading through your argument text, I wanted to take a closer look at the pictures…
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The first book I choose for this exercise is called “Lucidum Perspectivae Speculum” from the post “Greetings_67”. The reason being the similarities in physical characteristics. At first sight it seems that both books have the same dimensions. They are rather large in length and width. In terms of thickness, by taking a closer look one…
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I found some similarities in this text about the book “Architektura” by Gabriel Kramer to mine which is “V columnae” by Hans Blum. Similar to my assigned book, it is about the order of the five columns. It describes the appearance of the columns and the correct arrangement in the teaching of architecture. Doric, Classical…
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first comment to the post ’Argument76’ hi, i browsed through several posts and finally came across yours. after reading it, i took a quick look at your book. what you already tell in the post and i could also see for myself is that like my book “Theatrum machinarum molarium ” by Johann Matthias Beyer,…
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Comment on _28 The first book I found while searching for a similar book to Johann Jacob Schüblers book „Synopsis architecture cavils elective“ was the book „Architectura militaris“, written by Andreas Cellarius in 1645. Like Schüblers book it is also written in Old German. Also the font is very similar. The way the letters are…
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Comment on Greetings_34 Hello! The book that i analyzed is „Lo inganno de gl’occhi“ by Pietro Accolti. While browsing through the blog, your „Greetings“ post stood out to me, because of the geometric drawings that you photographed. That was also what I found most fascinating about my book. Also both books were written only 40…
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Comment 1: Greetings_93: Our books have many similarities in appearance, but also in content. Both books contain detailed hand drawings of a wide variety of columns. These hand drawings are also supplemented with technical information. In addition, your book also deals with the subject of entrances and their proportions. The books both have a leather…