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Mariano Taccola and His Book "De Ingeneis" by Frank D Prager; Gustina Scaglia; Mariano Taccola is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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On Engines, dated 1433, is an early and previously unknown treatise on engineering which was prepared for King Sigismund's arrival in Siena as he traveled to Rome for rites of coronation. Mariano Taccola has been described as a designer of military devices, but the drawings and texts of De ingeneis show his interest in the field of technology to encompass far more than the machines of attack and defense. He deals actively, at times creatively, with bridges and their foundations, with harbors, harbor equipment for the loading of freight, aqueducts both above and below ground, equipment for operating the wells at the end of an aqueduct, mill houses, and the machines and power plants associated with them. The numerous figures and landscapes that accompany his texts also reveal Taccola to be an interesting and original Sienese artist. He portrays human figures in situations that seldom appear in the major arts, and the nature studies among the vignettes beside his texts are distinctive to his art. As in a previous study of Brunelleschi's technology and inventions (MIT Press 1970), the authors represent different viewpoints in their analysisFrank Prager, the history of technology, and G

Who reads Mariano Taccola and His Book "De Ingeneis"?

Author

Frank D Prager; Gustina Scaglia; Mariano Taccola

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262160452

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Stem