A squire holding the victory-bringing iron head of Alexander the Great's spear called "Meufaton" (Bellifortis c. 1405)A giant war carriage supposed to have been invented by Alexander the Great (Bellifortis)Warriors taking cover behind a shield (Clm 30150 manuscript)
Bellifortis (lit.'Strong in War', 'War Fortifications') is the first fully illustrated manual of military technology, written by Konrad Kyeser and dating from the start of the 15th century.[1] It summarises material from classical writers on military technology, like Vegetius' De Re Militari and Frontinus' anecdotal Strategemata, emphasising poliorcetics, or the art of siege warfare, but treating magic as a supplement to the military arts; it is "saturated with astrology", remarked Lynn White, Jr. in a review of the first facsimile edition.[2]
^Anzovin, Steven et al, Famous First Facts, International Edition — A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in World History, H. W. Wilson Company (2000), p. 263 item 4117: "The first illustrated manual of military technology was Bellifortis, written and illustrated by Conrad Kyeser of Eichstatt, Germany, and covering a thousand years of European weaponry."
^Conrad Kyeser aus Eichstätt, Bellifortis, vol. I, facsimile edition in color, edited, with German translation, introduction and notes by Götz Quarg (Düsseldorf) 1967; extensively reviewed by Lynn White, Jr, in Technology and Culture, 10,.3 (July 1969: 436–441)
Bellifortis (lit. 'Strong in War', 'War Fortifications') is the first fully illustrated manual of military technology, written by Konrad Kyeser and dating...
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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...
History and Philology. 21 (2): 383–432. p. 395. Elsie, Robert (1986). "The Bellifortis Text and Early Albanian" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Balkanologie. 22 (2):...
engineer Konrad Kyeser (1366–after 1405). Devices depicted in Kyeser's Bellifortis include cranked windlasses for spanning siege crossbows, cranked chain...
astrological treatise and a version of Konrad Kyeser's famous war book Bellifortis. Most significant among the noble clients that Talhoffer served in this...
surviving firearm from Germany. Hand cannon being fired from a stand, Bellifortis manuscript, by Konrad Kyeser, 1405 A 10-shot hand cannon (handgonne)...
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the client is unknown) to technical illustrations in the tradition of Bellifortis (home, craft and military equipment, mining technology as well as military...
being consumed in Ireland, where it is distilled by Catholic monks. Bellifortis, a book on military technology, is published by Konrad Kyeser. Christine...
century: Konrad Kyeser, illustrated his manual of military technology Bellifortis with a diving suit fitted with a hose to the surface. This diving suit...
List of military inventions List of emerging military technologies Bellifortis, late medieval treatise on military technology. Materiel Douglas Peifer...
the 16th and 17th centuries. Konrad Kyeser described dragon kites in Bellifortis about 1400 AD. Although kites were initially regarded as mere curiosities...
Barbara of Cilli as Venus, "Liber de septem signis", in Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis (around first half of the fifteenth century) Barbara at the Council of...
rack-and-pinion device for cocking a crossbow (c. 1493) Organ gun in the Bellifortis (c. 1405) Matheus 1996, p. 346 Alfred Crosby described some of this technological...
grenade. Konrad Kyeser described rockets in his famous military treatise Bellifortis around 1405. Kyeser describes three types of rockets, swimming, free...
mixture got under the armour and stuck to the skin. Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis of 1405 describes a poisonous mixture of sulfur, tar and horses' hooves...
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