Brilliant Minds Neded: a Multi Barrel Illustration of 1511

fearn · 17th May 2009, 02:33 AM

Hi Michael,

The ones you just showed look much more familiar. Now I know where the modern reconstructionists are using to make those trebuchets and siege equipment. They need to make one of those assault dragons, though.

As an aside, people are still reprinting Roman works with new pictures. As a child, I was given one that had some of Pliny's Naturalis historia (in latin) with fanciful pictures attached. They'd picked Pliny's more colorful mistakes to illustrate, of course. Even under modern law, the old texts are in the public domain, so someone could take Flavius Vegetius Renatus and illustrate it as they liked.

Project for someone here, perhaps, without herbal inspiration?

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fernando · 17th May 2009, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by fearn

... Project for someone here, perhaps, without herbal inspiration? ...

Not an exciting task, though.
Things would be much too dull

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This is what happens when they ran out of such resource ... even the overimaginative author of Vier Bücher der Rytterschafft; cannons do look ... like cannons

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Fernando

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Matchlock · 17th May 2009, 06:50 PM

Hi, Fearn and Fernando,

I do like your ideas, pals!

BTW, the following are from: Anonymous: Ingenieurskunst- und Wunderbuch (Book of Engineering and Wonders), Weimar, Germany, 1522.

Meet well known earlier illustrative motifs, just slightly altered.

Best,
Michael

17th May 2009, 06:50 PM	#3
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Hi, Fearn and Fernando, I do like your ideas, pals! BTW, the following are from: Anonymous: Ingenieurskunst- und Wunderbuch (Book of Engineering and Wonders), Weimar, Germany, 1522. Meet well known earlier illustrative motifs, just slightly altered. Best, Michael Attached Images

17th May 2009, 02:33 AM	#1
fearn Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,247	Hi Michael, The ones you just showed look much more familiar. Now I know where the modern reconstructionists are using to make those trebuchets and siege equipment. They need to make one of those assault dragons, though. As an aside, people are still reprinting Roman works with new pictures. As a child, I was given one that had some of Pliny's Naturalis historia (in latin) with fanciful pictures attached. They'd picked Pliny's more colorful mistakes to illustrate, of course. Even under modern law, the old texts are in the public domain, so someone could take Flavius Vegetius Renatus and illustrate it as they liked. Project for someone here, perhaps, without herbal inspiration? F