The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, Engineer General of France with an explication of all terms appertaining to that art / made English.
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The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, Engineer General of France with an explication of all terms appertaining to that art / made English.
Author
Vauban, Sébastien Le Prestre de, 1633-1707.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swall ...,
1691.
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Fortification -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The new method of fortification, as practised by Monsieur de Vauban, Engineer General of France with an explication of all terms appertaining to that art / made English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47731.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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XXVI. To make a Square two, three, or four times greater than it is.
Let the given Square be ABCD.
1. Lengthen the side AB, and take the distance BD, and set it upon the lengthen∣ed side AB, as AE, and it will be a side of a Square double to that given at first.
2. Afterwards observe what was said a∣bove in the Eleventh Problem.
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