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La nuoua architettura militare d'antica rinouata

Capra, Alessandro, active 17th century, Monti, Giacomo · 1683 · In Bologna : Per Giacomo Monti · 53 pictures

A 1683 Italian treatise on military architecture and machinery, printed in Bologna by Giacomo Monti and attributed to Alessandro Capra, aimed at engineers and military builders. Its woodcut plates show numbered machine diagrams such as wheels, gears, and a hoisting frame, drawn in plain line with lettered keys, offering a designer clear mechanical forms and an old-fashioned technical diagram style to borrow for industrial motifs.

Military architecture · Fortification · Machinery

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