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- Title
- [Sketchbook on military art, including geometry, fortifications, artillery, mechanics, and pyrotechnics].
- Contributor Names
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Created / Published
- [Italy? 17th cent.]
- Subject Headings
- - Military topography
- - Military engineering
- Notes
- - Manuscript on paper. Leaves 4-81 so numbered.
- - Mainly pen and ink diagrs. and drawings, some painted with water colors.
- - The text accompanying part of the illus. is in Italian, a few pages are in Spanish.
- - Francesco Tensini, whose work La fortificatione was first published in 1624, is quoted on leaves 29 and [102].
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1363
- - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Medium
- [275] l., illus. (part col.), 12 x 16 cm.
- Call Number/Physical Location
- Rosenwald Coll. ms. no. 27
- Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.1363
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 50032645
- Online Format
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- LCCN Permalink
- https://lccn.loc.gov/50032645
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Chicago citation style:
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Sketchbook on Military Art, Including Geometry, Fortifications, Artillery, Mechanics, and Pyrotechnics. [Italy? 17th cent, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/50032645/.
APA citation style:
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1600) Sketchbook on Military Art, Including Geometry, Fortifications, Artillery, Mechanics, and Pyrotechnics. [Italy? 17th cent] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/50032645/.
MLA citation style:
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Sketchbook on Military Art, Including Geometry, Fortifications, Artillery, Mechanics, and Pyrotechnics. [Italy? 17th cent, 1600] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/50032645/>.
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