> I picked up a book from the library tonight called Bike Cult by
> David Perry that
> contains more than the usual amount of unicycling information. The
> big revelation for me was a picture of a unicyclist in a Hieronymus
> Bosch drawing called "Witches" from 1500.
>
> He has a variety of references to unicyling, and a section with a couple
> of paragraphs. He quotes our own Jack Halpern's book, Anyone Can
> Ride a Unicycle. I could nitpick a few of the things he says about
> unicycles, but all in all it looks like a fairly good book.
A fine book but also look out for some rather sloppy physics along with
the inaccurate unicycle info. The book covers a wide range of interesting
topics, but don't expect too much depth.
As for the uni in Bosch, the wheel was probably more for sexual
stimulation than for transportation. Not really any different than the
witch's broom. (I think
this was mentioned in Bike Cult, I forget.)
Paul Bunson
Dept. of Physics, University of Oregon
'The word for word is word' -W.S. Burroughs