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Agesistratos_Ballista
Ballista of Agesistatos, who was an important mechanical and military engineer of ancient Greece that mostly worked on war machines. He wrote a treatise on the war machines that is lost but it is known that from this treatise Vitruvius took a big part of Agesistratos’ treatise to write his work on the throwing machines that is contained in the detailed section of the X book of De Architectura.
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- Europeana
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- Europeana
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- image
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- University of Cassino, Italy
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- Europe
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First time published on Europeana
- 2013-11-25T18:09:53.743Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2013-11-25T18:09:53.743Z