The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 140
, was the first employedfor designating cannon ; but these engines were so imperfect in principle,and so feeble in power, that catapults, which had played so signal a part insieges during the Middle Ages, were used in preference when very heavyprojectiles had to be hurled (Fig. 64). Originally the… … Fig. 64.—Mangonneau ; an Engine of War of the Fifteenth Century. (Miniature in the MS. 7,239, Bibl. Imp. . of Paris.) trunnions ; or which were elevated or depressed for firing by a sort of tailor long projection behind the tube ; at other times the muzzle of thecannon is sustained by a fork more…
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