BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

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     After a second edition published in 1667 in the family workshop at the residence of Jacques Du Breuil’s widow and their son Jacques II, the Art universel des fortifications by Jean Du Breuil, reprinted the following year, came out in a third edition attributable to his nephew Jacques II. As were the preceding books, it is ascribed to Silvère de Bitainvieu, an anagram of “Jean Du Breuil iesuite”.

Critical bibliography

F. de Dainville, "L’enseignement des mathématiques dans les collèges jésuites de France au XVI^e et XVIII^e siècle (II)", Revue d’histoire des sciences, 1954, 7, 2, pp. 109-123.

K. Jordan, Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Festungsbaues von den Anfängen bis 1914, Marburg, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Festungsforschung e. V., 2003.

J. Langins, Conserving the enlightenment, Boston, MIT Press, 2004.

M. D. Pollak, Military Architecture Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern European City : A Checklist of Treatises on Fortification in the Newberry Library, Chicago, Newberry Library, 1991, p. 32.

H. Vérin, La gloire des ingénieurs, Paris, Albin Michel, 1993.