I decided to choose the two books to compare based on the topic of the book, so I searched for military architecture themed texts. I found the following books: Architectura militaris (1645) – Andreas Cellarius This work by Andreas Cellarius is historically speaking of about the same age as my assigned book. Cellarius though was…
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Xenotheka_160_Philipp Herzog
Searches Topic: “fortification” Alice’s Brain: Xenotheka Library Results: 630 Comments: Way too farfetched. Too many results, too often way off topic. Useless. Topic: “Fortification of castles, defensive architecture” Alice’s Brain: Architecture Library Results: 285 Comments: Still going far off Topic. But relevant ones, too. Relevant literature found: Szabo, The Bayeux Tapestry. A Critically Annotated Biblio…
Argument_160_Philipp_Herzog
The title of the book is “nouvelle manière de fortifier les places”, which is already quite revealing; It seems to be a kind of guide for architects (and probably warlords, too) on how to successfully design war-proof architecture. Maybe even architecture that might you a war or battle. It seems to reveal some kind of…
Greetings_160_Philipp Herzog
The book was way smaller than i imagined. In fact, it was more like a paperback, but still very costly made and decorated. I believe to know the side of the paper was covered with thin gold and it seemed like there used to be a kind of painting or geometry printed on it as…
Greetings_160_Philipp Herzog
The pictures shown are interesting because they show a type of architecture I have never seen before, not even in movies. How come it didn’t prevail if it is the ideal form of fortification?