Author: Diderot & d’Alembert

Publisher/Date: France (2002 facsimile)

Format/Condition: NEW, unread, soft cover is in fine condition. Measures 9 × 11 ½. The only text are captions to the illustrations and they are in French.

Description: The art of making 18th-century field and ship guns is explained here, from forming molds in the foundry to arming explosive shells. There is also a section of firework rockets. Excellent source of vintage clip art.

This book is a volume from Encyclopedia Diderot d’Alembert-a virtual treatise on the state of human affairs in the western world in the mid-18th century. One of the great features of his magnum opus was its thousands of meticulously rendered plates, laying bare the mysteries of astronomy, tanning, fort-building, printing, metal-founding, ceramics, goldsmithing, and the many other technologies of the world on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. Most of each volume is comprised of plates, which are facsimiles of the original edition. The only text are captions to the plates and they are in French