Architectura militaris oder gründtliche Underweisung der heuttiges Tages so wohl in Niederlandt als andern Örttern gebräuchlichen Fortification oder Vestungsbau
Architectura militaris is a 1645 military engineering treatise by Andreas Cellarius, published by Iodocus Janssonius, in German, setting out fortification construction as practised in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the seventeenth century. The pictures are numbered copperplate plans, elevations and perspective views of star-shaped bastioned forts, earthworks, moats and ramparts, with red manuscript figure labels. A designer could take their crisp hatched line work and geometric star layouts as a model for diagrammatic maps, architectural plans or patterned motifs.
