University of Virginia Library

Section B. Military and Naval Science.

As is to be expected, the largest collection in Virginia of
books on military science is at the Coast Artillery School at
Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort. On military and naval science
combined there are 10,469 volumes, but by far the major part
deals with military science, with emphasis on artillery. As an
indication of the research possibilities in the history of

military science, a dozen volumes may be listed from the collection;
namely, A. Bell's Treatise on the Art of War, 1803; Gaspard
H. Cotty's Encyclopédie Methodique, Dictionnaire de l'Artillerie,
1822; Cugnot's Elemens de l'Art Militaire Ancien et
Moderne, 1766; Etat Actuel de l'Art et de la Science Militaire à
la Chine, 1773; Friedrich II der Grosse, Military Instructions,
1762; Earl Orrery's Treatise on the Art of War, 1677; Préjugés
Militaires, par un Officier Autrichien, 1783; Puysegur's Art de
la Guerre, 1748; Duc de Rohan, Le Parfait Capitaine, 1648;
Maurice Saxe, Mes Reveries, 1757; Comte Turpin's Essai sur l'Art
de la Guerre, 1754; and R. Ward's Animadversions of Warre, 1639.
The plentiful sprinkling of foreign material in this collection
may be noted in this sample list; other evidences appear in the
fact that of eighty-two runs of military periodicals fifty-seven
are foreign, and of eighteen runs of naval periodicals thirteen
are foreign.

As is also to be expected, the collection numbering as a
whole nearly 20,000 volumes (See Part Two, III Science, Section
C., Geography.[22] ) at the Mariners' Museum Library is especially
strong in its section on naval science. In fact here is a high
point in the story of research possibilities in Virginia. Some
suggestion as to the quality of the material may be gained from
a brief list of titles of works published before 1750:-

L'Art de Batir les Vaisseaux, et d'en Perfectionner la Construc-
tion ... Amsterdam, 1719.

Bouguer, Pierre. Traite du Navire, de sa Construction, et de
ses Mouvemens. Paris, 1746.

Dassie. L'Architecture Navale, Contenant la Manière de Construire
les Navires, Galeres, et Chaloupses ... Paris, 1677.

[Dee, John] General and Rare Memorials Pertayning to the Perfect
Arte of Navigation. [London, 1577]

Euler, Leonhard. Scientia Navalis ... St. Petersburg, 1749.

Furtenbach, Joseph. Architectura Navalis. Ulm, 1629.

Hoste, Paul. L'Art des Armees Navalis. Lyon, 1697.

Hoste, Paul. Theorie de la Construction des Vaisseaux ... Lyon,
1697.

Sutherland, William. Britain's Glory; or, Shipbuilding Unvail'd.
London, 1740.

[Torchet de Boismele, Jean Baptiste] Histoire Générale de la
Marine. Paris, 1744.

Witsen, Nicholas. Aeloude en Hedendaegsche Scheepsbouw en Bestier.
Amsterdam, 1671.

Yk, Cornelis van. De Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw-Kunst open Gestelt.
Amsterdam, 1697.

The publications of the United States Navy Department and of the
British Admiralty are fully represented; so are Lloyd's Register
of Shipping, Lloyd's Register of Yachts, and Lloyd's Rules and
Regulations for the Construction and Classification of Steel

Vessels. There are long runs of such journals and society publications
as the Record of the American Bureau of Shipping, the
Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, the Bulletin
de Association Technique Maritime, Brassey's Naval and Shipping
Annual, the Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders
in Scotland, the Transactions of the Institution of
Naval Engineers, the Mariner's Mirror, the Naval Chronicle, the
Navy Records Society, the Journal of the Royal United Service
Institution, and the Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers. This section on naval science is
well supported by bibliographical works and by related material
in various branches of science and technology.

The State Library contains 1,710 volumes on military science
and 1,125 volumes on naval science, a total of 2,835 on these two
subjects. This is a general collection. But there is some emphasis
on military engineering, on naval architecture, shipbuilding,
and navigation, and on medical and sanitary services.

Smaller collections may be found at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and at the Virginia Military Institute, the military
material being the more extensive in both cases. Of special
interest at the Virginia Military Institute is a group of about
one hundred books (chiefly in French) from the libraries of
Generals Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, occasional volumes
containing autograph notes.