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Novo teatro di machine et edificii per uarie et sicure operationi : co[n] le loro figure tagliate in rame é la dichiaratione, e dimostratione di ciascuna : opera necesaria ad architetti, e a quelli, ch[e] di tale studio si dilettano

Zonca, Vittorio, b. ca. 1580 · 1607 · In Padoua : Appresso Pietro Bertelli · 60 pictures

Vittorio Zonca's Novo teatro di machine et edificii, printed by Pietro Bertelli in Padua in 1607, is a machine book of copperplate plates with explanatory text, addressed to architects and engineers. The engravings show mills, cranes, screw presses, water wheels and gearing in cutaway perspective, with lettered keys, workmen at scale, and hatched stone and timber usable as texture and diagram vocabulary.

Mechanical engineering

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