Name: Giant Catapulta tour with Jorge Sprave | 视频 | 干净世界
Uploaded: 2023-12-04T23:56:13.845Z
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Description: #Ancient, #Weapons, #ancientweapons "NOTE: The Romans would have call this a ""Cataputla"" and it shoots spears/arrows. If it shot rocks they would have called... | 视频 | 干净世界

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"NOTE: The Romans would have call this a ""Cataputla"" and it shoots spears/arrows.
If it shot rocks they would have called it a ""Ballista"".

Confusingly in Medieval Europe a ""Catapult"" would shoot stones or round shot, but this is a ""CatapulTA""

According to the Roman author Vitruvius Catapulta were made in three sizes
1 span catapulta (also called a Scorpion), 2 and 3 span. Each based on a multiple of the previous size.

This ""Catapulta"" is a ""6 span"" design (or it would be if the Romans ever built one that big) so it is twice as big at the largest Roman (3 span) machines

For further reading, I recommend searching for the Greek and Roman Artillery treatise by ""Marsden et al."