. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . After Spinello Aretini at Siena. From Monument of St. Peter Martyr. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THL DOUBLE RUDDER OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Chap. XIX. DOUBLE RUDDERS IIQ ment which he reminds his lover involves the reversal of the ordinary use of the tworudders :— V tin Union leva suso V altro leggier tien giuso,Ma convien levar mano Non mica com soleano,Ma per contraro, e face Cosi1 guidar verace. (P. 275.) A representation of a vessel over the door of the Leaning Tower at Pisa showsthis arrangement, which is also di
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . After Spinello Aretini at Siena. From Monument of St. Peter Martyr. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THL DOUBLE RUDDER OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Chap. XIX. DOUBLE RUDDERS IIQ ment which he reminds his lover involves the reversal of the ordinary use of the tworudders :— V tin Union leva suso V altro leggier tien giuso,Ma convien levar mano Non mica com soleano,Ma per contraro, e face Cosi1 guidar verace. (P. 275.) A representation of a vessel over the door of the Leaning Tower at Pisa showsthis arrangement, which is also discernible in the frescoes of galley-fights by SpinelloArelini, in the Municipal Palace at Siena. [Godinho de Eredia (1613), describing the smaller vessels of Malacca which he callsbdlos in ch. 13, De Embarcacoes, says : At the poop they have two rudders, one oneach side to steer with. E por poupa dos ballos, tern 2 lemes, hum en cada lado pera ogoverno. {Malacca, PLnde merid. et le Cathay, Bruxelles, 1882, 4to, f. 26.)—H. C] The midship rudder seems to have been the more usual in the
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