(1815) The Art of War MACHIAVELLI & Torpedo Warfare FULTON Navy Military History

Description: If you are using the Ebay APP and do not see the "Condition Description", please go to the "About this Item" section and hit the arrow to the right. This will lead you to the "Condition Description". Thank you! ART OF WAR in Seven Books. To Which Is Added, Hints Relative to Torpedo Warfare by a Gentleman of the State of New York ( pp. 323-49 )[and] Some Anecdotes, Relating to the Life and Writings of Nicolas Machiavel, Collected from Various AuthorsMachiavelli, Niccolo. Research attributes the added section to Robert Fulton, though it seems to be open to debate.Published by Albany, NY. by Henry C. Southwick 1815, 1815. 349 pp. illustrated. Missing majority of fold out diagrams/ plates.1st U.S..I strive to describe the item accurately, and provide photos to help convey the condition. If you purchase the item and it is not what you expected, please let me know and I will do my best to resolve the issue. Thanks for your interest in this item! seller inv #5A From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Art of War (Italian: Dell'arte della guerra) is a treatise by the Italian Renaissance political philosopher and historian Niccolò Machiavelli.The format of The Art of War is a socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Lord Fabrizio Colonna (perhaps Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents.Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was Machiavelli's only historical or political work printed during his lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat; the first was called North River Steamboat (later Clermont). In 1807 that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers, from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 miles (480 km), in 62 hours. The success of his steamboat changed river traffic and trade on major American rivers. In 1800, Fulton had been commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte, leader of France, to attempt to design a submarine; he produced Nautilus, the first practical submarine in history.[1] Fulton is also credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes for use by the Royal Navy.[2] Fulton became interested in Steam engines and the idea of steamboats in 1777 when he was around age 12 and visited state delegate William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who was interested in this topic. Henry had learned about inventor James Watt and his Watt steam engine on an earlier visit to England.

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