Collection of Military Machines with the Alphabet of Trithemius

APOLOGETICS.

A 2

...than that of Jupiter original: "celuy de Iupiter." A reference to Jupiter's thunderbolts, often compared to the roar and impact of cannon fire in early modern literature.: to overthrow the most flourishing Cities, to depopulate them of men, and to raze everything that opposes the violence of this Cannon. Moreover, we kept before our eyes the fact that nature abhors the destruction of its own kind, just as it loves its preservation; and that our art, and all our machines, aimed only at the destruction of men. Many other concerns presented themselves, which at every moment made us lose the desire to proceed further, fearing to run the same risk as Herostratus and Berthold Herostratus burned the Temple of Artemis to gain fame; Berthold Schwarz was the legendary inventor of gunpowder. The authors fear being remembered only for the destruction their machines cause..

On the other hand, it came to our memory that war was the nursing mother of peace, the seal of the truce, the guardian of concord, the rampart of Justice, the establishment of Empire, the Asylum of great Kings, the tamer of the reckless, and the fear of enemies; it gave praise original: "los." An archaic term derived from the Latin laus, meaning glory or renown. to the bold, and law throughout the world. Through war, acquisitions are preserved, the unstable is established, republics are confirmed, peace is maintained, and the state becomes flourishing. So much so that we draw compelling conjectures from this to assure ourselves that our Berthold was not as blameworthy as was proclaimed everywhere. Indeed, a little before we had resolved to write about our machines, we had composed an Elegy A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead; here, it seems to be a poetic critique of Schwarz's invention. against him, in imitation of several who have harshly attacked him, which we have inserted in this place to show it to the reader.