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Leonardo da Vinci's Giant Crossbow
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Leonardo da Vinci's Giant CrossbowLeonardo da Vinci's Giant Crossbow

Although Leonardo’s Giant Crossbow is one of his most popular drawings, it has been one of the least understood. "Leonardo’s Giant Crossbow" offers the first in-depth account of this drawing’s likely purpose and its highly resolved design. This fascinating book has a wealth of technical information about the Giant Crossbow drawing, as it’s a complete study of this project, though this is as accessible to the general audience as much as it is also informative with new discoveries for the professors of engineering, technology and art.
 
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Osprey - Warrior - 025 - Italian Militiaman 1260 - 1392
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Osprey - Warrior - 025 - Italian Militiaman 1260 - 1392
Medieval Italy was characterized by regular warfare among its numerous city-states, as well as internal strife within comunes as aristocratic factions fought each other for domination of the cities' governments. In this context, Italian warfare developed quickly, with the crossbow playing a key role in improving the armour technology of the Italian city militias that used them. This book traces...
 
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Tags: Italian, warfare, quickly, crossbow, developed