page_title: Catapult
hierarchical_section_title: Catapult
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: discoursdelareli00duch_0 (find matches) Title: Discours de la religion des anciens Romains&#160;: de la castrametation &amp; discipline militaire d'iceux. Des bains &amp; antiques exercitations grecques &amp; romaines ... Year: 1581 (1580s) Authors: Du Choul, Guillaume, 16th cent Du Choul, Guillaume, 16th cent. Discours sur la castrametation et discipline militaire des Romains Eskrich, Pierre, ca. 1530-ca. 1590, engraver Rouillé, Guillaume, 1518?-1589, printer Subjects: Military art and science Baths Baths Publisher: Lyon&#160;: G. Roville Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.
context_page_description: A catapult is a type of machine used as a weapon to throw rocks, large arrows, or other things such as hot tar, that would cause damage to something else. Often, catapults were set on higher ground or on castle towers to let them shoot farther. They shot rocks to break castle walls, or pitch or hot tar to set the target on fire.
  Catapults use weights and levers to send the rocks or other things into the air. They do not throw as far as modern weapons do, and are not useful in modern warfare. Catapults were common in the past, especially the Middle Ages.
  Nowadays catapults are used to study old weapons, and as experiments. Some old ones are kept in museums.
  Aircraft carriers use much more powerful steam catapults to throw airplanes into the air.
context_section_description: A catapult is a type of machine used as a weapon to throw rocks, large arrows, or other things such as hot tar, that would cause damage to something else.  Often, catapults were set on higher ground or on castle towers to let them shoot farther.  They shot rocks to break castle walls, or pitch or hot tar to set the target on fire.
  Catapults use weights and levers to send the rocks or other things into the air. They do not throw as far as modern weapons do, and are not useful in modern warfare.  Catapults were common in the past, especially the Middle Ages.
  Nowadays catapults are used to study old weapons, and as experiments (for example in physics or engineering classes). Some old ones are kept in museums.
  Aircraft carriers use much more powerful steam catapults to throw airplanes into the air.
caption: Drawing of Roman Catapult, 1581
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