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At the beginning of my search for similar books for “architectura militaris”, written by Andreas Cellarius, I had to find out how Alice works, since I was using the platform for the first time. For this purpose, I started searching for basic terms like construction or architecture. It was very interesting to see what a…

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The book I was assigned is “La militare architettura, overo fortificatione moderna, cauata dall’esperienza, e da varie maniere più pratticabili” by Pietro Ruggiero. I started by searching the name of the author using the entire Xenotheka brain. This however did not yield any results. I continued by with keywords relevant to the topics discussed in…

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As a first attempt, I tried to find books related to architecture and Paul Heineken. So I used Xenotheka Libraryas “Alice’s brain”, as Topic of conversation architecture and as search I typed: Paul Heineken. I got 10,000 results, but I didn’t really know how to approach them. With the further use of Alice, I realized that I would not…

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My book l’art d’appareil written by Menand contains many from his construction drawings. The drawings show insteresting shapes and are drawn by hand. The geometrical aspect is which impressed me the most, so I started to type “geometric construction” as well the drawings are a important aspect of the book so I looked for “architecture…

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Book: “De sacris aedificiis a Constantino magno constructis’’ The book talks about churches that were made by Constantine the Great during his time. That is why I decided to take Constantine the great & Constantine church as my main keywords to explore for the search engine. I then chose architecture for the topic of conversation…

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At the start I began by extracting the central words of my analysis. I settled on parallel and modern. Then I inserted them in different configurations and also modified as adjectives, plurals etc.. As the brain I used the architecture library. But this wasn’t the right choice because I only got results which interpreted the…

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The first Word(s) I’ve chosen was simply the name of the author of my Book – Ermenegildo Pini. In my first attempt, the topic of conversation was of course architecture, whilst using the Xenotheka Library’s Brain. This first search attempt, resulted in a in just one result, that came really close to what I was…

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When I started searching for connected books to the book „Synopsis architecturae civil eclecticae“ by Johann Jacob Schübler I learned right away how important it is to chose a topic of conversation on Alice. For my first searched I typed in „perspective view drawing“ while using the Xenotheka brain, without choosing a topic, and Alice…