The art of the catapult : build Greek ballistae, Roman onagers, English trebuchets, and more ancient artillery /
With some scrap wood, rope, hammer, nails, and this book, build seven historic catapults including Ludgar the War Wolf, God's Stone Thrower, Cabulus, and the Wild Donkey -- simple yet sophisticated hurling machines that rely on the fundamentals of math and physics using levers, force, torsion,...
| Основен автор: | Gurstelle, William. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago, Ill. :
Chicago Review Press,
℗♭2004.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=195798 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Art of the catapult. |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments
- Time line
- Introduction: Days before gunpowder
- Always be careful
- Science of siege
- Catapults around the world: Spring engine catapult
- Viking catapult
- Shooting snakes in a barrel
- Catapults of Alexander the Great: Alexander's artillery: Macedonian ballista
- Slings of the ancients: Ballearic hand sling
- Thracian staff sling
- Black flag flies over acre
- Saladin, Richard, and the third crusade: God's stone thrower: Traction-style catapult
- Cabulus, the great horse trebuchet: Cabulus, the great horse trebuchet
- John Crabbe
- Tinkerer, sailor, soldier, spy: Making rope
- Wild donkey: Onager catapult
- Hammer of the Scots: Ludgar, the war wolf
- Sun sets on catapult warfare: Basket-pult.