Vittorio Zonca
Illustration — Pompeo Targone's field mill in Zonca's treatise of 1607 • Illustration — Adaptation of Zonca's field mill in the Chinese book Qiqi Tushuo (1627), by Johann Schreck and Wang Zheng • Illustration — Endless screw and winch, in Zonca's treatise of 1607 Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death. Some of his plates were translated into Chinese by Johann Schreck and published in the 1627 Chinese book on European mechanical arts Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West.
Vittorio Zonca
Artist illustrating Wang Zheng's book · Page 256 of Joseph Needham's Science and Civilization in China, Volume 4, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering (1986, Taipei: Caves Books Ltd.) · Public domain
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- 1568 · Padua.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- inventor · architect
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Illustration — Pompeo Targone's field mill in Zonca's treatise of 1607 • Illustration — Adaptation of Zonca's field mill in the Chinese book Qiqi Tushuo (1627), by Johann Schreck and Wang Zheng • Illustration — Endless screw and winch, in Zonca's treatise of 1607 Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death. Some of his plates were translated into Chinese by Johann Schreck and published in the 1627 Chinese book on European mechanical arts Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West.
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- 1.Pacey, Arnold. The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology. MIT Press. 63. January 1992. 978-0-262-66075-4.
- 2.Moon, Francis C. The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux: Kinematics of Machines from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. Springer. 384. 29 October 2007. 978-1-4020-5599-7.
- 3.Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering. Cambridge University Press. 214. 2 January 1965. 978-0-521-05803-2.
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