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Nvova inventione di fabricar fortezze, : di varie forme, in qvalvnqve sito di piano, di monte, in acqua, con diuersi disegni, et vn trattato del modo, che si hà da osseruare in esse, con le sve misvre, et ordine di levar le piante, tanto in fortezze reali, quanto non reali.

Belici, Giovan Battista · 1598 · In Venetia, : Appresso Roberto Meietti, · 12 pictures

Giovan Battista Belicci's 1598 Venetian treatise on fortification, printed by Roberto Meietti for military engineers and architects, sets out designs for forts on flat ground, hills and water. The pictures are woodcut plans of bastioned fortresses with contour-hatched terrain, plus a pontoon-style floating structure, and a designer might borrow their dense hatched coastlines and geometric star-shaped layouts.

Fortification -- Early works to 1800

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