08-10-2006, 08:36 PM
I'm forced to retract my trebuchet example, then. Seems I was a little sloppy myself :wink: The traction trebuchet was utterly unknown me. Thanks for posting the range data. I won't submit the Chinese crossbow as an example since it was also developed independently by the Greeks in the form of the ballista before the Hellenistic Age. The Chinese feat was just one of miniaturization long before the Romans accomplished it around the late 2nd century AD.
BTW, here's another photo of the ox-powered galley mentioned in the De Rebus Bellicis except this looks like a modern diagram.
Looks like it might work, but who's gonna clean the dung off the deck ? :lol:
Theo
BTW, here's another photo of the ox-powered galley mentioned in the De Rebus Bellicis except this looks like a modern diagram.
Looks like it might work, but who's gonna clean the dung off the deck ? :lol:
Theo
Jaime