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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Wheeled siege ladder

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  A soldier ascends a siege ladder equipped with wheels.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Ladders, Military art and science, Siege warfare
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Drawbridge

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  A soldier ascends a drawbridge supported by ropes hanging from supporting beams.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Drawbridges, Military art and science
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Ladders

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  The image shows a soldier climbing a siege ladder alongside a schematic of a different ladder in three parts that can be screwed together.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Ladders, Military art and science, Siege warfare
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Sling

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  Soldier holding a sling used for hurling projectiles and an enlarged view of the sling itself.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Slings, Military art and science
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Mangonel

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  The mangonel was a type of catapult used generally for hurling stones at a besieged castle's walls. As Vegetius writes, "But the mangonel shoots stones, and throws various weights in proportion to the thickness of the…

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Catapult, Military art and science
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Wooden catapult

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  A wooden catapult used for hurling an object such as a stone.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Catapult, Military art and science
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Sling stave

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  The sling stave is a staff with a sling at the end, used for hurling smaller projectiles. In Latin it is called a fustibalus. One cord of the sling is attached to the staff or "stave" and the other end has a loop that…

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Slings, Military art and science
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Battering ram

  • Aries

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  A battering ram with an iron tip in the shape of a ram's head.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Battering rams, Military art and science, Siege warfare
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Spiked mantlet

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  A siege engine in the form of a portable shelter behind which soldiers could take cover and advance in the face of projectiles. This form is equipped with spikes to deter head-on attack from opposing forces.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Military art and science, Siege warfare
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Wheeled animal war engine

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  A war engine with four wheels in the shape of an animal with the feet of a bird and the head of a lion, operated by three soldiers.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Military art and science
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  Artist's depiction of Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, commonly referred to as Vegetius, a writer from the Later Roman Empire (circa 4th century) who wrote extensively on military matters.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Military art and science, Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Mantlet

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  A siege engine in the form of a portable shelter behind which soldiers could take cover and advance in the face of projectiles. This one appears to be equipped with a perforated grate in the middle through which the…

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Military art and science, Siege warfare
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Siege hook

  • Falx

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  The siege hook, or falx, was a siege engine dating back to Roman times. Similar to a battering ram, the siege hook was tipped with a pry bar, and the ram had handles for twisting and either splintering wooden doors or…

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Battering rams, Military art and science, Siege warfare
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Wheeled war engine with face and spikes

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  War engine with wheels, face, and spikes, apparently used to break up enemy ranks or crush enemy troops.

  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Engines of war, Military art and science
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  Rare books, Woodcuts

  Title page from Vegetius' Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • Part of Vier Bücher der Ritterschafft

  • 1529 (M.D.XXIX)

  Illustrated title page with a woodcut after Hans Weiditz by Jörg Brou the elder of Schoeller, showing a military scene with men in armor, some of whom are carrying long swords and spears in front of decorated tents.

  • Artist Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536
  • Author Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
  • Contributor Brou, Jörg
  • Publisher Stayner, Heinrich, -1548
  • Subject Military art and science
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  3 items
  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXVII (Fig. 6): Pneumonia confined to one lobe and appearing as large yellow abscesses on the surface in dog dying 5 days after exposure.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Poisoning from organic arsenic compounds.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XLI (Fig. 2): Hemorrhages in wall of damaged bronchus 6 days after chlorpicrin gassing. (Fig. 3) Higher magnification of hemorrhage in wall of bronchus shown in Fig. 2.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Hemorrhages in residual pulmonary lesions from respiratory irritating gases.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XL (Fig. 1): Hemorrhages in lung of dog killed 10 days after phosgene gassing.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Hemorrhages in residual pulmonary lesions from respiratory irritating gases.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXVIII (Figs. 8, 9): Congestion and hemorrhage about the bronchial tree standing out sharply against relatively normal lung tissue.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Poisoning from organic arsenic compounds.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXIX (Fig. 10): Hemorrhage into peribronchial sheath without extension to alveolar tissue; also perivascular edema.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Poisoning from organic arsenic compounds.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXVI (Fig. 4): Pneumonia arising diffusely throughout tissue full of edema.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Poisoning from organic arsenic compounds.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXV (Fig. 3): Great congestion of capillaries in alveolar walls and edema fluid in alveoli.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Poisoning from organic arsenic compounds.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXIV (Fig. 2): Trachea with edematous membrane in dog dying 19 hours after exposure to phenyldichlorarsine.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Poisoning from organic arsenic compounds.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXIII (Fig. 1): Trachea and lungs from dog dying 1 day after exposure to ethyldichlorarsine.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Poisoning from organic arsenic compounds.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare
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  Lithographs, Illustrations

  Plate XXXI (Fig. 3): Spleen, kidney, and section of aorta of dog surviving 49 hours after inhalation of arsine.

  • Part of Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning

  • 1920

  Arsine poisoning.

  • Author Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)
  • Publisher Yale University Press
  • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Chemical warfare