Color-blindness and color-perception / by Swan M. Burnett.

  • Swan Moses Burnett
Date:
1882
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Color-blindness and color-perception / by Swan M. Burnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The fighting-sword mer part of the nineti: either as rapiers or sail almost of decadence. present century were clumsy and unscientific blade and a tendency to they were not intended! as tl of the latter part of; the eighteenth and for- enth centuries (Fig. 27) were not very good, ers, and marked a period of transition to one Sections op Swobd-Blades!' The cavalry-swords the early part of the With great width of increase the width toward the point (Fig. 28), for cutting weapons, rusting ones. The -end was valuable in t was faulty in theoi| a retrogression to ;and were almost useless lea that weight at the nhancing the force of and practice, and was e principle of the axe n advance in the true method of construc- the sword. This has ord, which combine; (given way to the mod- within itself all the powers of which the weapun is capable, is good as a graa curved power, ard for thrusting and but not so much as nor so wide as to be for cutting. Slightly o impede its pointing ibo heavy, stiffened by groove so as to be capable of use as a rapier, its blade, with an edge on one ide along its length, is flatt med at the point, where it is ribbed, for streng h, into a two-edged sword (Fig. 29). The hilt has a wider guard, a id is intermediate between the rapier type and that of the basket fern. Adopting the principles that have ob- tained at various times, it s a good all-round weapon in skillful hands. While Western nation! have thus tended to a< opt a straight blade, Eastern races have almost without exception prefc -red a curved sword. By reason both of their piiysical peculiarities am of the lighter char- acter of the armor they v ear, they have been accustomed to adminis- ter cutting blows with th lir weapons rather than the straight, down- right strokes that are adapted to Western strength and armor, and a curved edge is more suitat ,e for cutting blows. |The hilt of the East- ern sword is small, and tbs boss, or pommel, at phe end of the hilt is large, so as to prevent the sword from slipping w is made. The Asiatic swords exhibit, moreover, of type than the Westerr swords. Some, like (Fig. 30), and the Malay < reeses (Fig. 31), are oft :r may be due to the influenc i of the priests of the fir be copied from the curvature and ornamentation dagger. The Albanian s resembling the convention ! tongue of fire (flamb yant), forms which ord has the edge thr en the drawing cut greater divergencies Persian cimeters n wavy, sometimes or the sun, or may the antelope-horn wn forward by the
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