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 141
interestingdetails of the condition of artillery used with powder, which, as early as thefifteenth century, had become much more extended than would be easilybelieved ; moreover, in the descriptions this author gives of armaments, orof narratives of battles, we almost alwaj^s still see catapults,… … Fig. 65.—Earliest Models of Cannon. In the Tower of London. Valturio, an Italian writer, whose treatise on military art was firstprinted in 1472, has described and drawn all the engines of war then in use.Cannons are not forgotten. We observe that the greater number of thesepieces have no longer…
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