The work l’Art universel des fortifications is a french book written by Jean Du Breuil. Let us first take a closer look at the main title. It means : “The universal art of fortifications”. What does this term defines exactly ? First, “universal art” means a set of knowledge known by everyone, and that art…
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Colona Traiana eretta del Senato Colona Traiana eretta dal Senato or in English The Trajan’s Column erected by the Senate tells us alone with the title and the first page what the book is about. Trajan’s Column was erected by the Roman Senate and people in honor of the Emperor Trajan Augustus on the Roman…
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Li cinque ordini dell’architettura civile di Michel Sanmicheli rilevati dalle sue fabriche /e descritti e publiati con quelli di Vitruvio, Alberti, Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio e Vignola dal co. Alessandro Pompei is a writing/book that illustrates the different orders of Classical architecture: Ionic, Doric, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite. The book also talks specifically about 7 of…
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The book „the grecian orders of archietcture“ was written by Stephen Riou and published in 1768 in London. Etienne „Stephen“ Riou was an english architect who lived between 1720 and 1780, he studied at Geneva and published his first work ‘The elements of Fortification’ in 1746. When taking a first look at the book it…
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L’EXPERIENCE DE L’ARCHITECTURE MILITAIREThe entire title of this book is about half a page long. It describes what this book is about. It is aboutexperiences of military architecture. In particular, it is about learning thoroughly how to work on thesquares: Knowledge of materials, masonry, plots… to finding water sources. I think this book wasintended as…
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The full title of the book is “The theory of perspective demonstrated; in a method entirely new by which the several planes, lines and points, made use of in this art, are shewn in the true positions in which they are to be considered ”. It consists two bands, text and graphic band. The text…
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Reimund Scherer 17/12/2021 this book is probably about the antiquities built in ancient rome and how they were able to stand upright. the book probably focuses on the immense structures, this can be deduced from the size of the book. no, the book has no index, it is mostly illustrations by the author. The book…
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Ferdinando Ruggieri (1691-1741), ein Florentiner Architekt veröffentlichte 1722 das Studio di architettura civile, ein dreibändiges Werk, in dem er die berühmtesten Architekturmodelle architektonischen Detailstudien inhaltlich aufarbeitet. Das Buch setzt sich größenteils aus Zeichnungen zusammen und wird nur wenigen Stellen durch kleine Texte und Schriften ergänzt. .Ein solches Beispiel sind die einleitenden Texte zu Beginn jedes…