Pensées sur la tactique et la stratégique ou vrais principes de la science militaire
A French military treatise on tactics and strategy printed by the Imprimerie Royale in 1778 and attributed to Silva, a work for officers and students of the military science. Its engraved plates are battle plans and maps showing troop formations, rows of tiny soldiers, rivers, hills and a town on a coast, drawn in a fine hatched line with the troops reduced to small marks. A designer could draw on the schematic cartographic language of these plans: dense formations rendered as repeated marks, and the clean, lettered captions set above the framed plates.
