summary of the history construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients
Subtitle: with a treatise on the structure, power and management Turkish and other oriental bows of mediaeval and later times
By: by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey.
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Catapult; Projectiles; Bow and arrow; Ballista; Engines of war; Military art and science -- History
Notes: Some of the historians, mechanicians and artists from whom information on balistas, catapults and trebuchets may be derived. - p.41-44.