Note 515 — Chapter XIII · SHOCK PROJECTILES
Reading edition
No reliance can be placed on the document given in Libri’s Hist. des Sciences Mathém. en Italie, iv. 487, which states that there were cannon and iron shot in Florence on the 11th February 1326. Libri was expelled from the French Academy, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1850 for falsifying and selling public documents which he had stolen from various institutions.