Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress

by H. W. L. Hime

[222] Conde, p. 559.

[223] iii. 83-4.

[224] Hist. du Roy Saint Loys, Paris, 1668, p. 69 ff.

[225] Elliot, ii. 219.

[226] Elliot, iii. 79.

[227] Saxa fulminis more contorquet, De Re Militari, iv. 22.

[228] Ὥσπερ πηηστήρ, Alex., xiii. 3.

[229] Reinaud and Favé, in Journal Asiatique, Oct. 1849, p. 281.

[230]

وهم يستعملونه في اعمال النار المتصاعدة والمتحركة فيزيدها خفة وسرعة التهاب. Reinaud and Favé, p. 78. The fire which “rises and moves” is of course rocket composition.