Name/Title
The Catapult: A HistoryDescription
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures and Maps -- Preface -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1 - Sticks and Stones -- Technological Innovation: Why? -- 2 - The First Catapult -- 3 - The Development and Diffusion of Tension Catapults -- Technological Survival -- 4 - The Sinews of War: Torsion Catapults -- 5 - Little Catapults -- 6 - The Age of Experiment: The Hellenistic Period -- Supporting Technologies and Counter-Technologies -- 7 - The Technical Treatises -- Knowledge and Understanding -- 8 - The Romanization of Catapult Technology -- Technology Transfer -- 9 - Strikes Back at the Empire -- 10 - Late Antique Catapults, East and West -- How Technologies Are Lost -- Appendix 1 - The Calibration Formulae and Components -- Appendix 2 - Known Catapult Remains -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- AcknowledgementsBook Details
Author
Rihll, TraceyEdition
1st edPublisher
Westholme PublishingPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
ChicagoDate Published
2007Publication Language
engISBN
9781594160356 9781594165757