L’ingegnoso ritrovato di fortificare con mirabil esattezza ogni sorta di poligono regolare sopra l’idea del signor di Vauban

by Benedetto Maria Castrone

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The first separately published edition of a short tract in parallel Italian and Latin by the Italian mathematician Benedetto Maria Castrone on Vauban’s theory of fortification. Published in the same year that the city of Palermo (the place of this book’s publication) adopted Vauban’s regular polygonal trace, the treatise had..... More

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