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Altaica Militarica

Oct 24 2005, 01:18 AM

QUOTE(StrangleLove @ Oct 23 2005, 03:43 AM) [snapback]4766958[/snapback]

You can find out everything you would possibly want to know about Chinese gunpowder and firearms development by reading Joseph Needham's "Science and Civilisation in China" Volume 5 Part 7 (The Gunpowder Epic) which I have in my hand right now. It has more information and illustrations than you can shake a firelance at. Check it out at your nearest university library. I've read it cover to cover

Unfortunately I found several heavy mistakes in J. Needham's accounts. They were done in respect of metal treatment in Song-Ming China and those mistakes made me to prefer original sources.

Best regards,

Alexey.

Altaica Militarica

Oct 24 2005, 09:04 AM

QUOTE(Thomas Chen @ Mar 20 2005, 11:24 PM) [snapback]4706871[/snapback]

Check out this lousy and sloppy website of mine, which I have created a few years ago but never publicized on the Internet... If my interest picks up, I will enhance this site and create another one for Chinese cannons...
http://chinese-gun.freewebspace.com/index.html

Dear Thomas,

What could you tell us about the steel blade in the butt of so called Rumi harquebuse from "Shenqi pu"?

I had to use pingying to re-type the line from "Zhongguo junqi shi":

"Chuangwei yu gangren. Diren fujin shi ji zhizhuan lai zi zhanmadao yung".

I am sorry if I have typed it wrongly but I had to re-tune myself from Korean reading to Chinese one. The translation is:

"In the butt is a steel blade. When enemies come close take it out and turn the weapon to use it as zhanmadao".

Best regards,

Alexey.

Conan the destroyer

Dec 9 2005, 03:39 AM

Why have I never heard of the matchloack designs mentioned on this thread being used in battle?

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