Comment on Argument_51: Your book seems to be quite similar to mine. As my book is called “Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places”, I used the word “military in the word search”. Both of our books seem to discuss ways to strengthen places. They have been written in roughly the same time, as my book…
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Connections_160_Philipp Herzog
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…
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…
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The title of François Blondel’s book is « Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places ». In the second task I discussed that the book contains concepts about the fortification of architectural spaces. So, my initial instinct was to use the word “fortification” in Ask Alice. As I expected, many books with similar titles and contents popped up…
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François Blondel wrote the book «Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier les places» in 1688. Translated to English, the title of François Blondel’s book means “new way of fortifying places”. If you also take the background of the author into account, he probably wrote the book as a theoretical text about architectural spaces. The author was at…
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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…
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François Blondel – Nouvelle maniere de fortifier les places (1686) I chose these two pages because I liked the illustrations and how they introduce the second part of the book. I was surprised about the size of the book as I expected it to be larger than 17cm.
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…
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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?