-
Bellifortis (lit. 'Strong in War', 'War Fortifications') is the
first fully illustrated manual of
military technology,
written by
Konrad Kyeser and dating...
- as "chastity belts" in the West is in
Konrad Kyeser von Eichstätt's
Bellifortis (1405),
which describes the
military technology of the era. The book...
- Kyeser's "
Bellifortis": The
First Technological Treatise of the
Fifteenth Century,
Technology and
Culture (1969).
Brian R. Price,
Bellifortis:
Conrad Kyeser...
-
scholars claimed to have
found a
Letter text in
Albanian inserted into the
Bellifortis text, a book
written in
Latin dating to 1402–1405. "A star has fallen...
-
spiked flail with both
hands to
strike an adversary.
Illustration from
Bellifortis showing a
mounted knight with a
short flail,
circa 1450.
Hussite troops...
-
Organ gun in the
Bellifortis treatise (written ca. 1405,
illustration from Clm 30150, ca. 1430)...
-
engineer Konrad Kyeser (1366–after 1405).
Devices depicted in Kyeser's
Bellifortis include cranked windl****es for
spanning siege crossbows,
cranked chain...
-
Konrad Kyeser equipped the
Archimedes **** with a
crank mechanism in his
Bellifortis (1405). This
mechanism quickly replaced the
ancient practice of working...
-
surviving firearm from Germany. Hand
cannon being fired from a stand,
Bellifortis m****cript, by
Konrad Kyeser, 1405 A 10-shot hand
cannon (handgonne)...
-
reference to
chastity belts in
Florence in the 15th
century military manual Bellifortis), with a band
around the
waist or hips and a "shield" that runs between...
