Title

The uses of gunpowder

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The uses of gunpowder including mortars, cannon, rockets and fireworks. From "Magia Naturalis" by Johannes Baptista della Porta (Nuremberg, 1715). The first edition of this book appeared in Naples in 1558. Engraving.

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