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Flagello militare, diuiso in quattro parti : la prima tratta de' trabucchi, la seconda de' petardi, la terza de' burlotti, e fuochi artificiali di mare e di terra, la quarta di mine, contramine, e d'altre cose importanti all'arte militare

Martena, Giovan Battista · 1676 · In NNapoli [sic] : Per Nouello de Bonis ... · 26 pictures

Flagello militare is a 1676 Neapolitan military treatise by Giovan Battista Martena, printed in Naples by Nouello de Bonis, covering siege engines, explosives, mines and fireworks for soldiers and engineers. Its numbered copperplate figures show a wheeled machine, angled instruments, a telescope-like tube, and tripods and tools laid out in ordered rows, offering a designer clear, diagrammatic arrangements of technical objects.

Explosives, Military · Sapping · Fireworks

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