Le machine :
volume nuouo et di molto artificio da fare effetti marauigliosi tanto spiritali quanto di animale operatione arichito di bellissime figure conle dichiarationi a ciascuna di esse in lingua uolgare et latina /
del sig[no]r Giouanni Branca cittadino romano, ingegniero & architetto ...

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Main Author

Branca, Giovanni, 1571-1640.

Language(s)

Italian ; Latin

Published

In Roma : Ad ista[n]za di Iacomo Martuci ... per Iacomo Mascardi, 1629.

Subjects

Machinery.
Machinery > Machinery / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts (prints) > Woodcuts (prints) / Italy > Woodcuts (prints) / Italy / 17th century.
Early works.

Note

Illustrations: Engraved title page; 77 woodcut plates.
Section 2 comprises "machine da alzare acqua", and section 3, "machine spirituali".
Figura XXV is the first published illustration of a steam impulse turbine, a mechanism earlier described by Leonardo da Vinci in the Codex Hammer (fol. 28v)
Recto of each numbered leaf is an ill. with descriptive letterpress in Italian and Latin on verso of previous leaf.
Signatures: A-V⁴.

Physical Description

[3], 40, 14, 23 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (4to)

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