Adam Freytag

{{short description|Polish engineer}}

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| name = Adam Freytag

| image = Tablica Adama Freytaga w Toruniu.jpg

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| caption = Memorial plaque at Freytag's childhood home in Toruń

| birth_date = 1608

| birth_place = Toruń, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

| death_date = 1650

| death_place = Kėdainiai, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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Adam Freytag (1608–1650) was a Polish military engineer, mathematician and physician. He is best known for his work Architectura militaris nova et aucta, the first manual of bastion fortifications of the so-called Old Dutch system, published in 1631. In 1633–1634, he served as a Polish military engineer in the Smolensk War.

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Category:1608 births

Category:1650 deaths

Category:People from Toruń

Category:Polish military engineers

Category:Polish people of the Smolensk War

Category:17th-century Polish mathematicians

Category:17th-century Polish physicians

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