The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 140
was the first employedfor designating cannon ; Lut thèse engines were so imperfect in principle,and so feeble in power, that catapults, which had plajed so signal a part insièges during the Middle Ages, were used in préférence wheu very heavyprojectiles had to be huiled (Fig. 64). Originally the… … Fig. 64.—ilangonneau ; 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…
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