The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 136
n to the word artillery which it now has, we ought perhaps to havesaid artillery used with gunpowder; for long before the invention ofgunpowder the word artillery was employed when speaking of all machinesor engines of war (Fig. 62). Thus in the middle of the thirteenth centurywe find among the… … Fig 62.—Engine for hurling Stones ; taken from a Miniature of the Chevalier au Cygne. (Bibl. Imp. de Paris, No. 340, S. F.) for hurling projectiles), and in 1291 we see Philip the Fair appointing agrand master of the artillery of the Louvre. In order to follow methodically the progress of the…
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