The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 124
perfect in principh*, and sofeeble in power, that catapults, which had played so signal a part in siegesduring the Middle Ages, were used in preference when very heavy projectileshad to be hurled (Fig. G4). Originally the piece rested on a fixed and immovable support; but soonthe means of sighting… … Fig. 64.—Mangonneau ; an engine of war of the Fifteenth Centxuy, (Miniature in the MS. 7,239, Bibl. Nat. de Paris.) other times the muzzle of the cannon is sustained by a fork more or lessburied in the ground. This bombard, attached to a platform on wheels,received the denomination of cerbotana…
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