Dodecahedral bowling
Popular Physics
2012-05-15 v2
Abstract
In this paper I propose a possible use of Roman Dodecahedra, which are bronze artifacts of gallo-roman origin dating from the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD, for playing a bowling game. The presence of holes and knobs can be quite important during collisions. Moreover, in several of these objects, the holes have different sizes providing a biased rigid body.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.3037,
title = {Dodecahedral bowling},
author = {Amelia Carolina Sparavigna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3037},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
This paper has been withdrawn by the author for the following reason. After preparing a copy of such a roman object, the author considers it a surveying instrument - rangefinder for ballistics. The author published the results in http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6497 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2078