The museums contain many interesting exhibits of ancient weapons. Some have survived to this day without obvious traces of corrosion. This is the question of the alloys used then. But there are plenty of other strange details.
A sword-vajra in one of the European museums. They write that this is "Spanish boar sword". But the hilt is one to one like the Japanese mythical Tengu. In both cases, the handle is made in the form of an Indian or Tibetan vajra. There is a statement that the vajra is a type of ancient weapon on a now unknown principle. Then a sword with such a hilt is not just a sword. Although, some argue that this is just a coincidence.
The swords are marked with risks and rulers. For what? It is believed that this is an artilleryman's stylet - for measuring the diameter of the core and calculating the range of the shot. The table is the Hartmann scale (the ratio of the mass of the nucleus and the caliber). Brief information about this weapon is here.
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From medieval treatises and publications. Daga trident. But also with printed tables and numbers. Those. their owners not only fenced with them, but also carried out calculations for firing from the guns of that time.
Epee with reflectors - for "sliding" the enemy's blade, for parrying. A rare weapon, apparently, not everyone knew how to use it, a skill was needed. Moreover, spring mechanisms were built into these blades and dagi-tridents. Technological weapon for those times.
Rapier 1610-1620 from Germany. 10-20 minutes of fencing, and the hand will be in calluses due to such a chain winding. But officially, they always fenced with gloves. Winding to increase friction is obtained. The rapier is more confident in the hand.
A lance is a device for some kind of measurements and an extremely strange sword, for the purpose of its owner to catch someone else's sword - to break it out of the opponent's hands or break it. But most of them have before their eyes a picture that in those days (16-17 centuries) there were only swords, rapiers, blades. The arsenal was apparently huge.
Flamberg sword. A rare weapon designed to leave cut wounds, but as they say - fragile, therefore, did not become widespread.
Indian sword-cobra. Ritual. Well, that's right, everything that is not combat is all ritual. So is the vajra.
Can't you find an analogy with what is seen on a part of the medieval drawing and the spectacle based on the Tesla coil? There is no official answer to what is shown on this part of the engraving. But logic dictates that corona discharges are depicted. And this can only be in a strong electrostatic field.
Based on such static electricity, knightly armor is not protection from cold weapons, but from discharges. Pay attention to the legs of the knights. It is impossible to move with such socks. The official explanation is that long-nosed shoes, also known as pulleins, are a sign that you are rich. The richer, the longer the noses. How do you like this explanation? What would you stumble faster when driving?
Something similar from another edition: Meyer, Friedrich: Meyer, Friedrich: Master of Arts and Fireworks (1594). Have you used fireworks in show fights? Or a picture with the image of the discharges on the shields was included in this book?
Ax musket? Why such a complex musket handle? There is an explanation that among some peoples it was not fencing with a hand that was adopted, but chopping, as they say from the shoulder (by firmly fixing the sword in hand, without working with a brush). Here are some examples:
Saber-talwar and broadsword-khanda. Pay attention to the small handle. The warriors were pygmies? This is not the first time I have come across confirmation that people of the 16-17 centuries were of smaller stature. And in some examples - on the contrary, more. And maybe then there were different people of different heights?
Chronicle of Amtlich Berner, 1474. This is what the guns were for and how they worked from the beginning. These are battering machines and they destroyed the walls only point blank. Probably later they began to be used for long-range combat - shooting at a distance.
Author: sibved