Promoting the Art of Fortress Building. Frontispieces of early modern fortification treatises
(2021) RSA’s 67th Annual Meeting — Location: Zoom (13.April.2021)
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- Among the scientific literature spreading all over Europe in the early modern period, there is a type of books that were quite successful in a society dominated by war: fortification treatises. With their appearance on the market, scholars gave to the practical art of fortress building a theoretical approach that progressively raised military architecture from applied mechanics to a mathematical science. As a window to the knowledge contained in the book, frontispieces of fortification treatises turn out to be the most suitable place to expose the new status of military architecture and of the engineer, who also gained a more honourable standing. Based on a few major case studies, this paper aims to highlight how those treatises circulated in early modern Europe and the role played by their title page to promote this new science of fortification.
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Schreuder, D. (2021). Promoting the Art of Fortress Building. Frontispieces of early modern fortification treatises. RSA’s 67th Annual Meeting, Zoom. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/109162