Greek and Roman artillery : technical treatises
| 1. Verfasser: |
Marsden, Eric William.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
At the Clarendon Press,
1971.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xviii, 277 p., 14 p. of plates : ill., plans (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- The Artillery manual of Heron
- Bitons's construction of war machines and artillery
- the artillery manual of Philon
- Vitruvius' artillery (Vitr. x, 10, 11, and 12)
- Heron's Cheiroballistra
- The arrow-shooting ballistra of the fourth century A.D. and later
- The onager.
