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Carlo Promis
(1808-1873)
Dello stato dell'artiglieria
circa l'anno Millecinquecento e
particolarmente delle dieci specie figurate da
Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Memoria Storica II In Dell'arte dell'ingegnere e dell'artigliere in Italia, dalla sua origine sino al principio del XVI
secolo e degli scrittori di essa dal 1285 al 1560 Memorie storiche cinque, in appendice e
schiarimento al Trattato di architettura militare di Francesco di Giorgio Martini, architetto senese
del secolo XV, a cura del cavalier Cesare Saluzzo, Parte Seconda, Torino, Tipografia Chirio e Mina,
1841, pp. 121- 199.
Four 16th-Century naval guns (or replicas) on display at Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth, UK. Far two are culverin near two are
demi-cannon. Taken by The Land Feb 07.
English: Hand Culverin With Small Cannons Europe 15th Century Nederlands: Veldslang, photographed at the Cluny Museum,
2007
Société de l'Oriflamme
http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/gp_wpns.htm
Fifteenth-Century Gunpowder Artillery
in
Museums
'Pumhardt' ca. 1400-50 wrought-iron bombard
Heeregeschichtliches Museum, Vienna, Austria
89.41 cm. [35.2 in.] caliber
251.46 cm. [8 ft 3 in.] length
7,221.26 kg. [7 tons 1,920 lbs.]
ca. 1450+ wrought-iron bombard
Heeregeschichtliches Museum, Vienna, Austria
16.26 cm. [6.4 in.] caliber
91.44 cm. [3 ft] length
124.74 kg. [275 lbs.]
ca. 1450 wrought-iron bombard [mortar]
Bernisches Historisches Museum, Berne, Switzerland
17.27 cm. [6.8 in.] caliber
38.1 cm. [1 ft 3 in.] length
36.74 kg. [81 lbs.]
reconstructed carrage of possible contemporary design
ca. 1450 bronze culverin
Musée de Morat, Morat, Switzerland
7.11 cm [2.8 in.] caliber
81.28 cm. [2 ft 8 in.] length
reconstructed carrage of possible later design
captured from Burgundian army
Different shapes of corned gunpowder, each with its own function 1911 Encyclopædia
Britannica/Gunpowder