The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 138
tlie word artillery whicli it now has, we ougtt perhaps to hâvesaid artillery used with gunpowder ; for long before the invention ofguupowder the word artillenj was employed when speaking of ail machinesor engines of ■nar (Fig. G2). Thus in the middle of the thirteenth centurywe fiud among the… … Fig. 62—Engine for hurling Sti 3 ; 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 foUow methodically the progress of the…
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