Arms and armour in antiquity and the middle ages : also a descriptive notice of modern weapons / translated from the French of M.P. Lacombe, and with a preface, notes, and one additional chapter on arms and armour in England, by Charles Boutell.

  • Paul Lacombe
Date:
1907
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Credit: Arms and armour in antiquity and the middle ages : also a descriptive notice of modern weapons / translated from the French of M.P. Lacombe, and with a preface, notes, and one additional chapter on arms and armour in England, by Charles Boutell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARMS AND ARMOUR. CHAPTER I. THE STONE PERIOD. ANTEDILUVIAN AND PRE-HISTORIC WEAPONS. Whatever the motive which led to the invention and the earliest use of weapons, whether the object of the inventor was to strengthen his hand in self-defence or that he might be enabled with greater force to strike aggressive blows, it appears to be certain that almost from the time of his first appearance upon the earth, man has felt the necessity of arming himself. Possibly, weapons were originally con- structed for the purposes of defence, and perhaps the first assailants of primeval man were fierce animals -, but it is also equally probable that at a very early period mankind found in their fellow-creatures enemies to be attacked as well as resisted.1 Within the last thirty or forty years fresh opinions have B
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