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Author: Marolois, Samuel.
Title: The art of fortification, or architecture militaire as vvell offensiue as defensiue, compiled & set forth, by Samuell Marolois revievved, augmented and corrected by Albert Girard mathematician: & translated out of French into English by Henry Hexam
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Print source: The art of fortification, or architecture militaire as vvell offensiue as defensiue, compiled & set forth, by Samuell Marolois revievved, augmented and corrected by Albert Girard mathematician: & translated out of French into English by Henry Hexam
Marolois, Samuel., Girard, Albert, 1595-1632., Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?
Printed at Amsterdam: For M. Iohn Iohnson, Anno 1631.
Alternate titles: Opera mathematica. Part 3.
Subject terms:
Fortification -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07035.0001.001
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TO The right honorable, & truely noble, Sr. HENRY VANE KNIGHT, MASTER CONTROVLER OF THE KINGS HOVSEHOLD, & one of his Majesties most honorable privie Coun∣cellours of State.
THE FIRST PART OF REGVLAR FORTIFICATION, DEMONSTRATED BY THE DECEASED SAMVEL MAROLOIS, And Reviewed, corrected & augmented BY ALBERT GIRARD, SANMIELOIS.
Of the definitions.
Icnographie, or ground-markeing.
Orthographie, or the Profile.
THE I. QUESTION. The 1. Figure, & 1. Plate.
ALBERT GIRARD.
To finde out the Angles.
To finde out the Lengths.
The 3. Figure, 1. Plate.
To finde out the Angles.
For the sides.
4. Figure. & 1. Plate.
For the angles.
For the sides.
ALBERT GIRARD.
For the lines in parts indetermined.
For the lines in parts determined, to vvit, brought into feete.
6. Figure. & 2. Plate.
ALB. GIRARD.
The 7. Figure, & 2. Plate.
ALB. GIRARD.
The 8. 9. 10 Figure. & 3. Plate.
The 9. Figure, vvhich is the 8, 9. 10. & 3 Plate.
The 10. Figure, vvhich is the 8, 9. 10.
The 11. Figure. 3. Plate.
The 12. Figure. & 4. Plate.
The 13. Figure.
The 14. Figure, the 1. of the tvvo.
The 15. Figure.
The 16. Figure. & 5. Plate.
The 17. Figure, & 5. Plate.
ALB. GIRARD.
The 18. Figure. & 5. Plate.
ALB. GIRARD.
The 19. Figure.
The 20. Figure.
The 21. Figure.
The 22. Figure.
The 23. Figure.
The 24. Figure.
The 25. Figure.
The 26. Figure.
The 27. Figure.
ALB. GIRARD.
The 28. Figure.
The 29. Figure.
The 30. Figure.
The 31. Figure.
The 32. Figure.
The 33. Figure.
The 34. Figure.
ALB. GIRARD.
The 36. Figure.
The 37. Figure.
The 38. Figure.
The 39. Figure.
The 42. Figure.
The 43 Figure.
Note 1.
Note 2.
Note 3.
Designes & plat formes of diverse Fortifications.
The 9 Plate, and the 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 Figures.
The 10. Plate, & the 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, Figures.
ALBERT GIRARD.
The 11. Plate, and 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 7, , Figures.
The manner how to describe succinctly the designes or Plots of some regular Fortifications.
The 12. Plate, and the 69. Figure.
The 70. Figure.
Note.
The description of the designe or the plate forme of a Fortresse Hexagonall.
The 13. Plate, and 71. Figure.
The 72. Figure.
The description of the plote of a Fortresse Heptagonall.
The 14. Plate, and 73. Figure.
The 74. 75. Figures.
The 2. of the 14. Plate.
A succint description of some other works in the said Heptagone, which are of an other manner of makeing then the former.
The 15. Plate, & 76. Figure.
How Citadels, or Castles may be joyned to Townes, or Townes to Castles,
The 16. Plate, and the 81. 82. Figures.
The 17. Plate, and the 82. 83. Figure.
How to describe the order which is obserued in makeing of a platforme, and of some other appendances.
Of the Foundations.
2. The 17. Plate.
The second 17. Plate, and Letters G, H, R.
Of the Rampart.
Of the Taluds or slooping vvalls or Ramparts.
Of Pyramids, and double Pyramids of the Taluds.
Of a Parapet.
Note.
The 1. Maxime.
The 2. Maxime.
The 3. Maxime.
The 4. Maxime.
The 5. Maxime.
The 6. Maxime.
The 7. Maxime.
The 8. Maxime.
The 9 Maxime.
The 10. Maxime.
The 11. Maxime.
A THE DIMENSIONS OF IN TWO MANNERS.
THE SECOND PART, TREATING OF THE FORTIFICATION OF PLACES IRREGVLAR. BY SAMVELL MAROLOIS, Revewed, Corrected, & Augmented BY ALBERT GIRARD SAMIELOIS.
The 18 Plate & 84. Figure.
How to fortifie a square fortresse with a Tenaille.
Figure 85.
To fortifie a Quadrilatera irregular in the forme of a trapeze.
Figure. 86.
An other way.
The 19. Plate, and 88. Figure.
An other way to make the fortification of such a place regular.
The 19. Plate and 89. Figure.
The fortification of a Pentagone irregular.
The 19. Plate and 90. 91 Figures.
An other way.
The 19 Plate & 91 Figure.
An other way.
The 20. Plate & 92. Figure.
Yet an other way.
The 20. Plate & 93. Figure.
A way how to fortifie a right Curtaine.
The 20. Plate & 94. Figure.
How to fortifie a Hexagone irregular.
The 21. Plate, & 95, 96. Figure.
The 96. Figure.
Note.
How to fortifie an Irregular place lying vpon the side of a river.
The 22. Plate & 102. Figure.
Note.
How to fortifie a place situated by a river side, where it is necessarie to make also some fortification on the other side of the water opposite to it.
The 23. Plate, & 103. Figure.
How to fortifie a place situated by the sea-side, and to make therevnto a commodious Haven.
The 23 & 24. Plates, and the 103. & 104. Figures.
Of some loose Peeces in regular fortresses.
The 23. Plate & 111. Figure.
How to make a fortresse, where two great riuers are not aboue 15, or 18, rod assunder one from an other, or thereabouts.
The 26. Plate & 113. Figure.
Note.
How a Generall shall come to besiege a Towne.
The 27, 28, Plates, and 114, & 115. Figures.
The 28, Plate, and 115. Figure.
The 29. Plate & 121. Figure.
Figure 123.
Figure 124. & 125.
Figure 126.
The 29 Plate, Figures 116, 117, 118, 119, & 120.
A B C D.
B E F I.
L M K, and all the rasing.
The 33 Plate, and 140. Figure.
The 33 Plate & 141 Figure.
OF APPROCHES.
The 31, & 32 Plates, and 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. Figures.
The 33 Plate & 144. 145. Figures.
Figure 142. 143.
How to pierce through a Counterscharfe, and to make a Gallerie over a moate.
The 34 Plate, and 150. 151. 152. & 153, Figures.
The 151 Figure.
How one must be prepared against a Siege.
The 35 Plate and 154 & 155. Figures.
The 38 Plate & 159 Figure.
Of Cuttings off, aswell generall, as particular.
The 36 Plate & 156 Figure.
The 38 Plate & 159 Figure.
How one ought to carrie him selfe vpon an Assault.
The 36, & 38 Plates, & 156, & 159, Figures.
Of Casemates.
The 37 Plate & 157, & 158, Figures.
The 38, Plate & 160, Figure.
Figure 2. 160. & 38. Plate.
Of Brasse ordinance.
The 39. & 40. Plates and 161. 162. 163. 164. Figures.
ALBERT GIRARD.
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