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Re: trebuchet

At 01:04 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
...the germ of this clever idea originated
with engineers who modified the catapult into the trebuchet in the 13th
century or earlier! ...

Donald E. Simanek

Certainly the chronology of the catapulta vs. the trebuchet supports
Donald's thesis as to the trebuchet's superiority.
But I have been inclined to assign the catapulta's fall from grace
to the pragmatics of those war engineers.
I am open to reasoned correction, however.

Brian
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK