My wife speaks French fairly ok. I bet she could translate for me... Seth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be happy to send it out, but I will be away
from the computer for the next few days working on building halberds. A subject
which I am getting very familiar with.
Do you also build crossbows?
Scott
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} There is a book regarding the medieval crossbow by Egon Harmuth,
called Die Armbrust.
I used to tell people that I read a bit of German and am absolutely fluent in
crossbowese, so the book made perfect sense even though it was in very
technical German, not conversational. The Joseph Alm book, in Swedish, I
believe, was also as easily understood.
A basic understanding of the topic can go a very long way in understanding
writings in almost every culture...
Chris Nogy
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On 2/17/2007 at 3:23 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that this has been pointed out before but I will reiterate here.
The book "La vielle a roue" written by Michael Pignol, for sale from Pascal
Caranga's site or available through AMTA (I think), has a lot of information in
it. Including the effects of placement of the main bridge in the regards to the
wheel. The problem here being that it is all in French. If you are seriously
working on the research you will have to translate the pages. I can scan the
pertinent pages and send them to you for private use only. I don't think it
will be a problem with the copy write. I do suggest that you get a copy of the
book for general information. If you pick out a few words you can get much of
the basics from the book and there are a lot of good diagrams and measurements.
Scott
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