Military engineering

Ortisi, Salvatore

Militärische Ausrüstung und Pferdegeschirr aus den Vesuvstädten

The following work serves as a thorough, typological investigation of the military equipment and horse harnesses found in the Vesuvian cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae....

Sievers, Susanne

Die Waffen aus dem Oppidum von Manching

The approximately 800 weapons fragments from the oppidum of Manching, which covers over 300 years of settlement history, found their way into the ground for many different...

Leng, Rainer

Franz Helm und sein »Buch von den probierten Künsten«

Ein handschriftlich verbreitetes Büchsenmeisterbuch in der Zeit des frühen Buchdrucks

The „Book of proven arts“ was written in 1535 by the gunmaster Franz Helm as a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the art of artillery. The lengthy working procedures deal...

Editor: Leng, Rainer

Anleitung Schießpulver zu bereiten, Büchsen zu beladen und zu beschießen

Eine kriegstechnische Bilderhandschrift im cgm 600 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München

The "Anleitung Schießpulver zu bereiten, Büchsen zu beladen und zu beschießen" contains an illustrated manuscript of a gunmaster from the beginning of the 15th century. Some...

Prager, David

Philo of Byzantium. Pneumatica

The first Treatise on Experimental Phyics: Western Vesion and Eastern Version. Facsimile and Transcript of the Latin Manuscript, Codex Latinus Monacensis 534, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

Philo, from the Greek colony of Byzantium, was active in Alexandria and Rhodos about 200 BC. He is famous as one of the earliest teachers of military engineering, and is known to...

Hall, Bert S.

The technological illustration of the so-called “Anonymous of the Hussite Wars”

Codex Latinus Monacensis 197,1

The „Manuscript of the Hussite Wars’ Engineer“ is frequently cited, but never studied in full. It is a compendium of drawings ans descriptions concerning military devices,...