Encyclopaedia of Markings and Decoration on Artillery (7 Parts)
Year: 2014 Language: english Author: Mendel L. Peterson Genre: Encyclopedia Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 6651 Description: Mendel Lazear Peterson (1918-2003) spent his whole life learning to read cannon language. In all the important Army, Navy and History museums of the world, he has studied, deciphered and photographed well above twelve thousand bronze and iron cannons, howitzers and mortars. Reading cannons, the inscriptions, marks, mottos, symbols, allegories, cyphers, coats of arms and portraits that used to cover bronze artillery pieces in the Age of Artillery (mid-14th to mid-20th century) is reading about Power, about History. Who could explain History better than the instruments that made it? For this long period, cannons — have been "Ultima Ratio Regum", "The Last Argument of the Kings", the argument that settles it all, between enemy rulers or between commercially competing nations after everything else has been tried and has failed: Diplomacy, negotiations and bribery, influence, threats and ultimatums. In various of his publications, Mendel Peterson has pointed out the occasional limitations to the method of identifying a newly discovered wreck on the basis, only, of the cannons it was carrying. He himself studied, in great detail also, all the miscellaneous artefacts that can be found in the wreckage of an ancient ship. Being all Mendel Peterson's photographic catalogues of the main collections of cannons, mortars, howitzers, etc. in European and Western Hemisphere museums, castles, forts and private collections, as they existed between 1950-2000. With corresponding, updated editor's albums consisting of illustrated descriptions of the same museums etc. (European only) at the state they were in at the time of printing or scanning. The editor's albums (EAs) include new, recently opened museums.
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Encyclopaedia of Markings and Decoration on Artillery (7 Parts)
Language: english
Author: Mendel L. Peterson
Genre: Encyclopedia
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 6651
Description: Mendel Lazear Peterson (1918-2003) spent his whole life learning to read cannon language. In all the important Army, Navy and History museums of the world, he has studied, deciphered and photographed well above twelve thousand bronze and iron cannons, howitzers and mortars.
Reading cannons, the inscriptions, marks, mottos, symbols, allegories, cyphers, coats of arms and portraits that used to cover bronze artillery pieces in the Age of Artillery (mid-14th to mid-20th century) is reading about Power, about History. Who could explain History better than the instruments that made it? For this long period, cannons — have been "Ultima Ratio Regum", "The Last Argument of the Kings", the argument that settles it all, between enemy rulers or between commercially competing nations after everything else has been tried and has failed: Diplomacy, negotiations and bribery, influence, threats and ultimatums.
In various of his publications, Mendel Peterson has pointed out the occasional limitations to the method of identifying a newly discovered wreck on the basis, only, of the cannons it was carrying. He himself studied, in great detail also, all the miscellaneous artefacts that can be found in the wreckage of an ancient ship.
Being all Mendel Peterson's photographic catalogues of the main collections of cannons, mortars, howitzers, etc. in European and Western Hemisphere museums, castles, forts and private collections, as they existed between 1950-2000.
With corresponding, updated editor's albums consisting of illustrated descriptions of the same museums etc. (European only) at the state they were in at the time of printing or scanning. The editor's albums (EAs) include new, recently opened museums.
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