Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 119
in nearly every respect with the catapults of the ancients.It was often merely a species of gigantic sling, worked by several men, andthrowing pieces of rock and round masses of stone. The mangonneau, bricole,or trabuch, was a kind of square wooden platform, made of thick planks laidcrosswise; a… … Fig. 66.—Catapult.—When the lever revolves rapidly on its axis, the centrifugal power causes theloop C to slip off the hook D, when the harrel held on the fork E E is liberated and projectedto a distance. F represents the end of the lever when held down by the windlass A, andloaded with a barrel of…
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