Mobile tank-like fortress in the shape of a dragon,1472
Title: [Mobile tank-like fortress in the shape of a dragon]
Related Names:
Valturio, Roberto, 1405-1475.
Date Created/Published: [1472]
Summary: Print shows a dragon-shaped, mobile fortress equipped cannons and capable of carrying troops, with a ladder device mounted on the front used for scaling walls or as a bridge during siege warfare.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Illus. in: De re militari / Roberto Valturio. [Verona] : Joannes Nicolai de Verona, 1472.
Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 21 & 103.
Subjects:
Military art & science--1470-1480.
Arms & armament--1470-1480.
Dragons--1470-1480.
Book illustrations--1470-1480.
Woodcuts--Hand-colored--1470-1480.
Bookmark /2006680134/
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