Daniele Barbaro's Vitruvius of 1567
This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro's 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technology whose influence extended far beyond its day. Intended to both interpret and expand upon...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2019.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- On What Machine Is, How It Differs from Instrument, and On Its Origin and Necessities
- On the Tractive Machinations of Sacred Temples and Public Works
- On Diverse Names of Machines and How They Are Erected
- On a Machine Similar to That Explained Above With Which Greater Things Are Made by Merely Changing the Windlass into a Drum
- On Another Sort of Machine or Pulling
- On an Ingenious Theory of Ctesifonte for Transporting Weights
- om which the Ephesian Temple of Diana was Built
- On the Straight and Circular Motions that are Required to Lift Weights
- On the Sorts of Instruments for Raising Water, and First the Water Wheel
- On the wheels and drums for milling flour
- On the Screw that Raises Great Quantities of Water, But Not Very High
- On the Machine Made by Ctesibius that Raises Water Very High
- On the Hydraulic Machines Used to Make Organs
- The Theory for Measuring a Journey Made by Carriage or by Ship
- On the Theories of Catapults and Scorpions
- On the Theories of Ballistae
- On the Proportions of the Stones that Must Be Drawn to the Hole of the Ballista
- On the Tempering and Loading of Ballistae and Catapults
- On Things for Assailing and Defending, and First on the Invention of the Ram and its Machine
- On the Apparatus of the Tortoise for Ditches
- On Other Tortoises
- The Peroration of the Entire Work.
