The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
Good book
This book is not for engineers, but it does provide a good bit of history which was enjoyable. The drawings and instructions are average and are made for the average person. I did not buy this book with the intention of making any of the devices...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Water balloons? Dead bodies infested with plague for me!
Who would I want to go through the building of all these great weapons just to catapult some water balloons? PLEEAAAASE!!! Do you think Rome got to be Rome by doing just that? We can do better!
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Water balloons? Dead bodies infested with plague for me!
Why would I want to go through the building of all these great weapons just to catapult some water balloons? PLEEAAAASE!!! Do you think Rome got to be Rome by doing just that? We can do better!
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Nice, simple book
This is a good book for people interested in learning about early ballistics, and for those who want to help them learn. While I was thinking about my son when I bought this, I have to admit that I've had a lot of fun with it so far.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Fun Book for Kids
The cover is a bit misleading and seems a bit skimpy but the book is well written and has lots of information, images, drawings, and projects. Just has some good basic information on the art of siege engines with a timeline and history of siege...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 31, 2007 Type: User Review |
Catapults, etc.
My grandson & I will give this a full test this summer. He'll be thrilled to make things that work.
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 28, 2007 Type: User Review |
Making things fly through the air is just plain cool
LEGAL do it yourself defense systems...as long as you're being attacked by slow moving hordes...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
My opinion
The book met my expectations;I'll make models for high school students dealing with mechanical energy.JFC
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 29, 2007 Type: User Review |
Way too simple, but OK for kids
I find this book to be very superficial when it comes to the real deal. If you're looking for a book on catapults, you're going to get disappointed. This book focuses om making simple small scale models of catapults. I suppose it's great for a...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 17, 2007 Type: User Review |
Definitely not worth the money.
I was really dissappointed with this book. Several of the projects are ridiculous, and he didn't do enough research. A few quick searches of the internet reveal that he gets a lot of historical facts wrong.
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 2.00/5 |
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