NonvelleManiere Fortifier ks places /^^r Monfieur 
Blonde!^ &c. a la Haye^ 1684. 
THe Author having confidered the Art of Fortification as it is 
at prefent praitifed^ finds it not to have received pro- 
portionable improvements to the Art of Attacqmng, This 
appears fufficiently in the fuccefs of the K. of France^ who 
ufually makes himfelf matter of thefe Towns in 10 daj$, which 
formerly were held capable of refilling as many Mmhs, There 
is therefore laid down a new way of Fortification^ which may 
take away from the Befiegers, the advantages they draw from 
their number of Men and Cannon 5 and giveariie BefiegeJ room 
for the making ufe of more Cannon, and fuppljmg the want of men. 
This is principally done by a vaft inlargement of the Flancf^ 
and Demigorges fo as to be capable of three very large Bat^ 
teries one over another, and fometimes a Cavalier at top, all 
which in fome -F^^^m may hold 100 or 120 Cannon^ fu^cient 
to difmount my Battery that may be raifed on the Coinrefcarv- 
For the better explaining the Work,^ there are l^ Tables ad- 
ded. The I . is to fhew the pradrife upon all forts of Angles 
of Poligons given, the 3. 4. ands". contain part of fever 
al forts of Foligons fortiHtd after this method The 6th. is 
the Plane of a Te^aille made large, and reprefenting exad:ly 
all the parts of thi^-Fortfication. The 7th. is the fame Fla?ie 
with its profile. The is a Tahle for calculating the Jngles 
in feveral PoUgons fortified after this manner. The ^th. is a 
Table for calculating the lines in the fame Poligons. The 
lotb. 
