Pompeo Targone
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Siege of Ostend
The Siege of Ostend was a three-year siege of the city of Ostend during the Eighty Years' War and one of the longest sieges in history. It is remembered as the bloodiest battle of the war, and culminated in a Spanish victory...
(1604), the Siege of La Rochelle
Siege of La Rochelle
The Siege of La Rochelle was a result of a war between the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627-1628...
(1627-1628) and the Huguenot
Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
wars. Targone proposed to block the channel leading to the harbour of La Rochelle
La Rochelle
La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a bridge completed on 19 May 1988...
in order to stop all supplies to the city, but his structure was broken by the winter weather, before the idea was taken up by the Royal architect Clément Metézeau
Clément Metézeau
Clément Métezeau , also Clément II Métezeau, was Royal architect of Louis XIII, and French engineer who completed the seawall blocking the city of La Rochelle in the Siege of La Rochelle in 1627–1628....
and the Paris masson Jean Thiriau. Targone has also been credited with the invention of the field mill
Field mill
A field mill is a specialized instrument used for measuring the strength of electrical fields in the atmosphere near thunderstorm clouds. They are used in the launch criteria for the Space Shuttle to avoid lightning strikes...
in Vittorio Zonca
Vittorio Zonca
Vittorio Zonca was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607, four years after his death....
's treatise on mechanical arts.
See also
- Artists in biographies by Giovanni BaglioneArtists in biographies by Giovanni BaglioneLe Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Intagliatori dal Pontificato di Gregorio XII del 1572. fino a’ tempi de Papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642. is an art history book by Giovanni Baglione, first published in 1642...
- Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far WestDiagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far WestDiagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West was an encyclopedia of Western mechanical devices translated into Chinese by the Jesuit Johann Schreck , and the Chinese scholar Wang Zheng...