Fünff Bücher von Vestung Bauwen Bonaiuti Lorini ... in welchen durch die allerleichtesten Reguln, die Wissenschafft sampt der Practick gelehret wirdt, wie man Städte und andere Örter uff underschiedlicher Situs Gelegenheit sol befestigen ...
Fünff Bücher von Vestung Bauwen is a 1607 German treatise on fortification by Buonaiuto Lorini, translated by David Wormbser and engraved by Johann Theodor de Bry, printed by Matthias Becker for military engineers and town builders. Its plates show ground plans of star-shaped bastioned fortresses with labelled bastions, curtain walls and moats, alongside cross-section profiles of ditches and ramparts, and a few mechanical devices such as pumps, wheels and water-raising machinery. A designer could take the crisp geometric plan layouts, the lettered keys and the dense hatched engraving for a historical diagram style.
