Share ebook The Book of the Crossbow: With an Additional Section on Catapults and Other Siege Engines (repost) free download
D..ver P..tions | 2009 | ISBN: 0486287203 | four hundred pages | PDF | one hundred seventy MB
This exciting research, the only guide devoted completely to the crossbow, traces its use as a military and sporting weapon as nicely as its development and management in medieval and modern moments. The work also handles this kind of connected weapons as the balista, catapult, Turkish bow, and a lot more. About 240 illustrations.
The all-time bestseller with a first version as far again as 1903, later to show up with the 1907 appendix, was composed by an amateur (in the accurate sense of the term) of archery who apparently had an unlimited supply of income and time, but only moderate track record in physics. Along with the historical past of the crossbow, detailed accounts of the development and maintenance of various crossbows designed for bolts and bullets are given. Associated and/or relevant medieval weapon, like longbow, ballista and arquebus, are also treated in some depth, and the 1907 appendix on turkish bows serves to give a most intriguing distinction to european archery of the epoch. This said, it need to be stressed that on the total it is a really fine piece of operate, built by a historian relatively than an engineer, a ebook with no a match for nearly a century, and undoubtedly well well worth recommending.
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