The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 150
e), 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… … 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 or…
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