Entrée principale:

Pagan, Blaise François de, comte de Merveilles, 1604-1665.

Titre et auteur:

Les fortifications du comte de Pagan.

Publication:

A Paris : Chez Cardin Besogne ..., 1645.

Description:

[4], 7, [1], 116, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 34 cm. (fol.)

Notes:
Engraved title vignette (arms of Pagan).
Engraved portrait of the author by Jean Patigny, sculptor and Henri Gascar, designer, dated 1656.
Signatures: [pi]² *-**² A⁴ B-2E² [2F]².
Influence on Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, whose earliest forts were entirely based on Pagan's designs, but with minor improvements and adaptations to differences in terrain.--Cf. Dictionary of scientific biography, XIII, p. 592.
First ed.; reprinted at Brussels in 1668 and in Paris in 1669 and 1689.
Library copy: binding: contemporary French calf.
Library copy: labels of G.P.C., Fratelli Salimbeni, and Bibliotheca Mechanica (?).

Expositions:

Exhibited: "Le siècle de Richelieu", Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Sept. 19, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Jan. 31, 2003-May 4, 2004.

Résumé:

Influence on Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban , whose earliest forts were entirely based on Pagan's designs, but with minor improvements and adaptations to differences in terrain--Cf. Dictionary of scientific biography, XIII, p. 592.

Sujet:

Fortification France Early works to 1800.
Military architecture France Early works to 1800.
Military art and science France Early works to 1800.
Fortifications France Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture militaire France Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art et science militaires France Ouvrages avant 1800.
Fortification.
Military architecture.
Military art and science.
Fortification Early works to 1800.
Geometry Early works to 1800
France.

Classification/genre:

Early works.

Vedettes secondaires:

Labels. Fratelli Salimbeni.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque cage m 64930
Cote: TA140.P128 (ID:91-B2139)
Statut: Disponible