PHS172M@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) (05/24/91)
From: Stephen Harker <PHS172M@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Seymour) writes: > COMPOSITE BOWS: > > Scientific American (june 1991) has a nice article on composite > bows. If this is your area of interest, you should really get > a copy and take a look. Anybody know of any other such articles? > (composite bows talked about are of wood, horn, sinew, and glue) > This is just a brief overview of the bow itself, not a treatise > on its use. I posted an article that listed some references for composite bows to soc.history about 5 days ago. The list of references that I had been able to find are appended. Note that the first is the one I started with, there are a lot more references in there that I did not find in our University library. [1] Roman Archery Equipment, J. C. Coulston; p 220 "The Production and Distribution of Roman Military Equipment", Ed. M. C. Bishop (BAR 1985) Proc. Second Roman Military Equipment Research Seminar [2] The Physics of Bows and Arrows, P. E. Klopsteg American J. of Physics, 4, 175-92 (1943) [3] The Archers of Islam, W. F. Paterson; J. Economic and Social History of the Orient, 9, 69 (1966) [4] The Crossbow, V. Foley, G. Palmer and W. Soedel Scientific American, Jan 1985, p 80 -- Stephen Harker phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Monash University Baloney baffles brains: Eric Frank Russell