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A Rocket Cat? Early Modern Explosives Treatises at Penn

Mitch Fraas

Feb 5, 2013

I was puzzled when a friend asked me a few weeks ago if I’d seen the “rocket cat” illustrated in a Penn manuscript which had been featured on the book blog BibliOdyssey in November. The image, from what was described as a 1584 “Feuer Buech” manuscript, appeared to show a cat and a bird propelled…
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Tag: LJS 442

A Rocket Cat? Early Modern Explosives Treatises at Penn