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Huygens Institute - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Citation: Simon Stevin, [IV] The Principal Works of Simon Stevin, The Art of War, edition Vol. IV, volume This PDF was made on 24 September 2010, from the 'Digital Library' of the Dutch History of Science Web Center (www.dwc.knaw.nl) > 'Digital Library > Proceedings of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), http://www.digitallibrary.nl' - 1 - II THE PRINCIP AL WORKS OF SIMON STEVIN EDITED BY J. J. ERNST CRONE, E. DI]KSTERHUIS, R. FORBES J. M. G. MINNAERT, A. PANNEKOEK AMSTERDAM C. V. SWETS & ZEITLINGER - 2 - , · ./ I' ;-- ~I f - 3 - MAURICE, PRINCE OF ORANGE, COUNT OF NASSAU Frontispiece of the Castramelalio, 1617 - 4 - III THE PRINCIP AL WORKS OF SIMON STEVIN VOLUME IV THE ART OF WAR EDITED BY W. "H. SCHUKKING Colonel, Dutch Royal Engineers (ret.) AMSTERDAM C. V. SWETS & ZEITLINGER 1964 - 5 - IV The edition of this volume IV of the principa/ works of SIMON STEVIN devoted to his pub/ications on T he Art of War, has been rendered possible through the financia/ aid of the Netherlands Organization for Pure Research (Z.W.O.) Printed by ,Jan de Lange"·n.v., Deventer, Holland. - 6 - v The following edition of the Principal Works of SIMON STEVIN has been brought about at the initiative of the Physics Section of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Weten schappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) by a committee consisting of the following members: ERNST CRONE, Chairman of the Netherlands Maritime Museum, Amsterdam E. J. DI]KSTERHUIS, Profmor of the History of Scienre at the Uni1/trJities of Leiden and Utruht R. ]. FORBES, Profmor of the History of Srience at the MUnlripal Uni1/ersity of Amsterdam M. G. ]. MINNAERT, Farmer Professor of AJtronomy at the Uni1/ersity of Utrecht A. PANNEKOEK, Farmer ProfeJJor of AJtronomy at the Municipal Uni1/erJity of AmJterdam The Dutch texts of STEVIN as weIl as the introductions and notes have been translated into English by Miss Mary 1. Reule J. (Introduction and Castrametatio) and by F. X. Verhofstad (The Art of Fortification and manuscripts). - 7 - - 8 - THE ART OF WAR OF SIM ON STEVIN - 9 - - 10 -

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