'樓船 [Lou chuan] "armoured" battleship showing 3 counter-weighted trebuchets on top deck'

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/10/4/2/5/6/55

Scope and Contents

Joseph Needham's title on the slide continues: '回回砲 [Hui hui pao]'.

English and Han traditional

Image reproduced in Science and Civilisation in China Volume 5, Part 6/fig. 78.

Joseph Needham's category: Martial Technology; Trebuchets, Projectile Weapons II.

Glass slide 8 x 8 cm

Slide source: Chhên Mêng-Lei, Thu Shu Chi Chhêng (the Imperial Encyclopaedia) +1726 / Jung Chêng Tien ch.97, pp.5b and 6a.

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