Task 4: Connections François Blondel – Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places (1686) The first book in which I could directly find several similarities was by Francois Blondel; Nouvelle manière de fortifier les places. It was published only one year before L’experience de l’architecture militaire, written in French and deals with the subject of military…
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Title: L’expérience de l’architecture militaire Author: The Martins Publication Date: 1687 For the third task of ‘friends with an old book i tried to find the topic which makes the book ‘L’expérience de l’architecture militaire” special or interesting. Of course, as the title already claims, it is about military architecture. But it isn’t only a…
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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…