The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 141
interestingdétails of the condition of artillery used with powder, which, as early as thefifteenth century, had become much more extended tban would be easilybelieved; moreover, in the descriptions this author gives of armaments, orof narratives of battles, we almost always still see catapults, the… … Fig. 65.—Earliest Models of Cannon. In the Tower of LonJon. Valturio, an Italian writer, whose treatise on military art was firstprinted in 1472, has described and drawn ail the engines of war then in use.Cannons are not forgotten. We observe that the greater number of thèsepièces bave no longer…
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