Image: Gastraphetes, Copy M, Codex Parisinus inter supplementa Graeca 607 (fol. 47v)
Description: Gastraphetes of the Greek engineer Hero of Alexandria (manuscript illumination). Explanation: The green horizontal line with its forwardly bent limbs represents the double recurve bow. Below in red runs the bow string, which is drawn on the stock (the vertical thick red line). It was cocked by pressing down the stomach in a concavity at the rear of the stock which is the curved structure (red) at the bottom.
Title: Gastraphetes, Copy M, Codex Parisinus inter supplementa Graeca 607 (fol. 47v)
Credit: Hero of Alexandria: "Belopoeica", Copy M: Codex Parisinus inter supplementa Graeca 607 (fol. 47v), Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Author: unknown illuminator
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