Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress
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The contents divide the work between the origin of gunpowder and the progress of ammunition, listing historical peoples and individual figures under the first part. The ammunition headings list hand ammunition, with fire-arrows and fire-pikes, and give war rockets a separate heading.
The discussion of historical terminology contests a translation of sal coctus as saltpetre, quoting an objection that ordinary salt was often employed in artifices. The argument treats the later substitution of sal petræ for sal coctus as evidence that writers distinguished the substances, rather than treating the expressions as equivalent. The explanation of coquo connects boiling or evaporation with common salt, and says that coctus would distinguish evaporated or artificial salt from natural or rock salt.
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- Author
- H. W. L. Hime
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 134
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Military History
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