Pompeo Targone's field mill in Zonca's treatise of 1607

Field mill in the Chinese Qiqi tushuo, 1627

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the ''Theater of machines'', which was published in

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in 1607 four years after his death. Some of his plates were translated into Chinese by

Johann Schreck Johann(es) Schreck, also Terrenz or Terrentius Constantiensis, Deng Yuhan Hanpo 鄧玉函, Deng Zhen Lohan, (1576, Bingen, Baden-Württemberg or Constance – 11 May 1630, Beijing) was a German Jesuit, missionary to China and polymath. He is ...

and published in the 1627 Chinese book on European mechanical arts '' Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West''.

Works

* Vittorio Zonc
''Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii''

1607. *

Notes

References

* Arnold Pacey ''The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology'' MIT Press, 1992 * Francis C. Moon ''The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux: Kinematics of Machines from the Renaissance to the 20th Century'' Springer, 2007 * Joseph Needham, Ling Wang, Gwei-Djen Lu ''Science and civilisation in China'' Cambridge University Press, 1965

External links

* *Vittorio Zonca (1607
''Novo teatro di machine et edificii per varie et sicure operationi''
- digital facsimile from the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zonca, Vittorio 1568 births 1603 deaths Italian engineers Italian male non-fiction writers Italian science writers