Two Books on the Manner of Making Earth Fortifications (1559) - Page 28


Opinion of San Martino regarding bastions	7
Principal office of the bastion	19
Order of the glacis spalto	20
Every meager option must be chosen in time of necessity	26
Order of the stakes in piling palificare	28
Order of the rows of straight trees	31
Opinion of San Martino in straightening trees	32
Lote turf blocks are an excellent thing for making shelters	47
Every foreman will want two hundred sappers per day	47—58
Excellent way to put brushwood stipa to use	50
Order to be observed by those who work in the shelter	57
Order for making sorties	65
Order to be followed when one can choose the form of the fort	76
Order for dividing the specific members of the fort	78
Order for making the design on paper	80
Order for making the casings camiscie	84
In measurements, keeping to a middle path is an excellent thing	86
Every triangle contains two right angles	93
Every principal wind has ninety degrees	94
It is an excellent thing to have diligent supervisors sollicitatori	95
Every evening, orders will be given to the supervisors regarding what is to be done the following day	95
Excellent order in raising shelters	95


Walking pace	4
It is worth more to be praised by one good man than it matters to be blamed by many bad ones	2
Why the knowledge of forms in fortifying seems difficult to many	3
Venetian pace	5
A rather narrow square and a strong shoulder the flank of a bastion should be made rather than otherwise	7
First embrasure	8
Parapet in earthen works is made almost perpendicular	8
Upper square	9