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Ships & guns : the sea ordnance in Venice and Europe between the 15th and the 17th centuries /

Ships and Guns brings together experts from the field of historic artillery and underwater archaeologists to present a series of papers which focus on the development of naval ordnance in Europe and, especially, Venice, in the 15th-17th centuries, as exemplified by the maritime archaeological resour...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Università degli studi di Venezia. Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità e del Vicino Oriente
Otros Autores: Beltrame, Carlo, 1969-, Ridella, Renato Gianni
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Ships, guns, and historical archaeology / Sauro Gelichi and Mauro Librenti
  • Venetian guns for and from the sea
  • Morphology and constructive techniques of Venetian artilleries in the sixteenth and seventeenth century : some notes / Marco Morin
  • Venetian ordnance in the shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Sea / Carlo Beltrame
  • The race to big calibres during the first war of Morea and Sigismondo Alberghetti's guns of new invention / Guido Candiani
  • Two Venetian swivel guns from Messina Strait, Italy / Rossella Scordato
  • A Venetian ship sunk in Cyrenaica at the beginning of the 18th century / Sebastiano Tusa
  • Italian production of naval ordnance between the 15th and 17th centuries
  • Genoese ordnance aboard galleys and merchantmen in the 16th century / Renato Gianni Ridella
  • Bombards in Savona in the 15th and 16th centuries / Furio Ciciliot
  • Guns and profit : Tuscan naval artillery in the 16th to 17th centuries / Niccolò Capponi
  • Armed ships of the post-medieval period in Croatia / Irena Radic Rossi
  • European ordnance aboard the ships (15th-17th centuries)
  • Did naval artillery really exist during the modern period? : a brief note on cannon design / Javier López Martín
  • Stowed or mounted : the Spanish Armada of 1588 and the strategic logistics of guns at sea / Colin Martin
  • "A jewel of great value" : English iron gunfounding and its rivals, 1550-1650 / Ruth Brown
  • Ships and guns of the Tudor navy, 1495-1603 / Robert Douglas Smith
  • The British sea service mortars : some notes on their evolution with particular reference to the drawings of Albert Borgard, c. 1700 / Martino Ferrari Bravo
  • Sixteenth-century French naval guns / Max Guérout.