Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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Page 465
... ballista and catapultę resulted probably from this necessity . But these soon be- came instruments not only of defence but of attack ; for , in the siege of Motya ( about 370 B. C. ) , Dionysius , after having battered down the ...
... ballista and catapultę resulted probably from this necessity . But these soon be- came instruments not only of defence but of attack ; for , in the siege of Motya ( about 370 B. C. ) , Dionysius , after having battered down the ...
Page 466
... ballista and catapultę , which are , by some authors , confounded with each oth- er ; but , according to their etymology , ballista ( from Balλw , to shoot or throw ) is an engine for propelling stones , called also XoBoλos , Rεтpoßoλos ...
... ballista and catapultę , which are , by some authors , confounded with each oth- er ; but , according to their etymology , ballista ( from Balλw , to shoot or throw ) is an engine for propelling stones , called also XoBoλos , Rεтpoßoλos ...
Page 467
... ballista , is placed in the cavity of the spoon . At a given word , the detent is struck away with a mallet , and the stem , obeying the enormous elastic force which now acts upon it , remounts , and dis- charges the projectile with ...
... ballista , is placed in the cavity of the spoon . At a given word , the detent is struck away with a mallet , and the stem , obeying the enormous elastic force which now acts upon it , remounts , and dis- charges the projectile with ...
Page 488
... Ballista . ) ORCHARD BIRD . ( See Oriole . ) ORLANDO . ( See Roland . ) ORNITHORYNCHUS . ( See Platypus . ) ORR , Hugh , was born January 13 , 1717 , at Lochwinioch , in the county of Renfrew , Scotland . He was educated a gunsmith and ...
... Ballista . ) ORCHARD BIRD . ( See Oriole . ) ORLANDO . ( See Roland . ) ORNITHORYNCHUS . ( See Platypus . ) ORR , Hugh , was born January 13 , 1717 , at Lochwinioch , in the county of Renfrew , Scotland . He was educated a gunsmith and ...
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| Title | Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13 Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford |
| Editor | Francis Lieber |
| Contributors | Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake |
| Publisher | Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2010 |
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