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The institution of a military school on the island
of Corfù in the eighteenth century
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In 1728 Johann Maria von Schulemburg proposed to the Venetian Senate  the establishment of a military school which, in addition to the obvious advantage of improving military training from a technical point of view, would also foster a deeper relationship between the local elite and the administration of Venice. Schulemburg wrote of the urgent need to create technicians and experts 'documented in military mathematics, whence they will conduct themselves with reason and sound principles, understanding the effect of causes. For this essential objective it is necessary to institute a military school in which one can learn the elements of these mathematics and later, fortification, artillery, and the art of navigation; thus also 10 or 12 of these officials will be trained, and brought up by the fortifications of Corfù  and schooled by me, they will already be skilled in drawing and will promise greater profit'1.

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1 'documentati delle matematiche militari, onde abbiano ad operare con ragione e fondati principi ed intendendo l'effetto delle cause. Per questo essenziale oggetto sarebbe necessario istituire una scuola militare nella quale si potrebbe apprendere gli elementi di queste matematiche ed in seguito fortificazione, l'artiglieria e la nautica; così pure si verrebbero a perfezionare 10 o 12 di questi ufficiali che, allevati dalle fortificazioni di Corfù a da me formati, si sono già resi abili nel disegno e promettono maggior profitto'


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