cu-mkp / sandbox

The “Sandbox” space makes available a number of resources that utilize and explore the data underlying "Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640" created by the Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University.
https://cu-mkp.github.io/sandbox/
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calculate sizes and ratios of cannonballs #68

Open njr2128 opened 2 years ago

njr2128 commented 2 years ago

Are the AP's drawings of the cannonballs (like this one: https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/folios/26r/f/26r/tl) accurate for the sizes they claim to represent? Are the actual drawings correct ratios to each other?

See essays by Tavares (https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_308_ie_19) and Brioist (https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_309_ie_19)