Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics

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Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics

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Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered.
Mainly pen and ink diagrs. and drawings, some painted with water colors.
The text accompanying part of the illus. is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish.
Francesco Tensini, whose work La fortificatione was first published in 1624, is quoted on leaves 29 and [102].
Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1363
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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01/01/1600
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