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Appier-Hanzelet, Jean, 1596-1647 · 1630 · Au Pont-à-Mousson : Par I. & Gaspard Bernard · 66 pictures

A 1630 French military treatise by Jean Appier-Hanzelet, printed at Pont-à-Mousson by I. and Gaspard Bernard, setting out siege machines and artificial fireworks for attacking and defending fortified places. The four pictures are woodcut-style engravings of machines: a wheeled ladder-and-rope device, a geared winch on a wooden frame, a pulley-and-ladder rig on a platform, and a wheel of cones and rockets. Designers could draw on their stark line work, hatching and clear mechanical diagrams for technical or historical graphics.

Artillery · Military engineering · Military fireworks · Siege warfare

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