Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
Subtitle: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801869945
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of science; Weapons & equipment; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Military Science; Military - General; History; History - General History; Military; Europe; Renaissance; Military - Strategy; History / Europe / General; History / Military / Strategy; History-Renaissance; Military art and science; Technology-Military Science; Military - Weapons
First sentence: Reversing Clausewitz's famous dictum, technology always has a logic however difficult it may be to decipher, but it seldom has a grammar, a system of patent rules for its employment.