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Re: Found a resource! (Was: Re: Cannon?)
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:08:44 GMT
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That's plenty of information, thanks for your help!
In lugnet.castle, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> 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?
> > >
> > > The commonly accepted date for the European adoption of cannon
> > > is 1327, when one appears (IIRC) on the Bayeux Tapestry
> >
> > 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).
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> I just stumbled upon a really cool resource on early, early
> cannon and firearms:
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> http://members.sia.net.au/dispater/handgonnes.htm
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> 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.
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> Other resources of note:
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> http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~tekpages/cannon.html
> (From the Medieval Technology Pages, a useful resource for all
> lo-technophiles)
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> http://www.hyw.com/books/history/cannon.htm
> (Technical discussion of early cannon)
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> http://60centuries.copper.org/middle4.html
> (Copper and brass guns)
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> Lots of others exist, of varying quality. Hope this helps!
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> best
>
> LFB
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| (...) And then there are Greek fire projectors which appear much earlier than cannon and may be among things classical which were largely "lost" during the so-called Dark Ages. One or two of them suddenly appearing from the mysterious East could (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I just stumbled upon a really cool resource on early, early cannon and firearms: (URL) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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