Koetschau, K. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Handfeuerwaffen. Festschrift zum achtzigsten Geburtstag von Moritz Thierbach

This historian's festschrift is an anthology of essays by colleagues of Moritz Thierbach on various aspects of the technical-historical development of small arms.

Overview of the essays contained in the volume: The Precursors of Gunpowder; My Gothic Handguns; A sketch of the History and Evolution of the Handgun, up to the close of the Fifteenth Century; together with some prefatory remarks on Gunpowder, over the same Period (English text); The Development of the Gun Mount up to the beginning of the 16th Century. The development of the gun mount up to the beginning of the 16th century and its relationship to that of the rifle stock; The first multi-barrelled hand and hook rifles; The handguns of the Swedish army of the Thirty Years' War; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz and the handguns; An axe hammer with shooting device; The rifle of Michael Gull from 1658; The Hesse-Cassel miller's rifles and their masters; A French battery lock of special construction; History of the rifle factory at Olbernhau in Saxony; Les fusils de Sardaigne (French text); The rifle forms that were common in the Balkan Peninsula; Psychological aspects of shooting training.