Militar architecture in the America of the XVIII century: assimilation, hybridazion, resistance

Abstract

In the beginings of the XV century a technological transformation as beendeveloped in the european continent concerning the most diverse human disciplines: in 1494 a new and powerfull weapon deffeated quickly -through the hands of french troops-the, till the moment, extremelly solid italian ramparts: it was a cannon worked with powder: a new ensamble of specialized knowledges began to be structured. The investigation and experience obtained in the war actions allowed to know the effect of the new weapons, the valuation of the shot angles, the damage produced by the mines, and also the clinical procedures to allend the wounded in the battlefield...; but it was, undoubtedly. in the art to construct fortifications where occur a really significant change, leaving s. o. out -with the most fortified medieval cities- all an ensamble of knowledges, till the moment acting like doctrinal body of two old roman authors: Vitruvio and Vegecio