07-08-2016, 08:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2017, 12:06 PM by Crispianus.)
"I still haven't seen any evidence for a shield being turned on a lathe in the ancient world. All evidence points to small and lightweight items. Lathe-turned shields are a theory -- speculative at best and the evidence highly inconclusive."
Theodorus of Samos who lived in the 6th century BC is a potential candidate for the invention of the Lathe, but likely the truth is somewhat different, but as with other things he is said to have invented it may have been a new method rather then a completely new idea....
I'm no expert on any of this and I certainly couldnt tell you what evidence exists.... there is evidence though that the Romans at least used a true Lathe not necesarily from wooden objects which rarely survive, but from metal pots and plates as well as metal spinning and reconstructions have been made based on this evidence, often its only by doing something that you find out how it could have been or indeed was done....
Theodorus of Samos who lived in the 6th century BC is a potential candidate for the invention of the Lathe, but likely the truth is somewhat different, but as with other things he is said to have invented it may have been a new method rather then a completely new idea....
I'm no expert on any of this and I certainly couldnt tell you what evidence exists.... there is evidence though that the Romans at least used a true Lathe not necesarily from wooden objects which rarely survive, but from metal pots and plates as well as metal spinning and reconstructions have been made based on this evidence, often its only by doing something that you find out how it could have been or indeed was done....
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
