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Found a resource! (Was: Re: Cannon?)
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 05:55:52 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, Adam Murtha writes:
> > > This is probably a stupid question, but when did cannons come into use?
> > > Would a ship in the 'castle' era have cannons?
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> > The commonly accepted date for the European adoption of cannon
> > is 1327, when one appears (IIRC) on the Bayeux Tapestry
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> Correction--oops. Bayeux Tapestry is the depiction of the
> Battle of Hastings. I'm thinking of another tapestry, but the
> date is right (1324, 1326, and 1327 are the ones given).
I just stumbled upon a really cool resource on early, early
cannon and firearms:
http://members.sia.net.au/dispater/handgonnes.htm
It has a picture of said cannon, though in a manuscript rather
than on a tapestry. And I apologise for being a CAD by replying
to my own post not ONCE but TWICE.
Other resources of note:
http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/cannon.html
(From the Medieval Technology Pages, a useful resource for all
lo-technophiles)
http://www.hyw.com/books/history/cannon.htm
(Technical discussion of early cannon)
http://60centuries.copper.org/middle4.html
(Copper and brass guns)
Lots of others exist, of varying quality. Hope this helps!
best
LFB
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| (...) Correction--oops. Bayeux Tapestry is the depiction of the Battle of Hastings. I'm thinking of another tapestry, but the date is right (1324, 1326, and 1327 are the ones given). I hate making misteaks like that. best LFB (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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