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Giuseppe Ceredi. A Hydraulic Engineer in 16th-Century Italy

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The main objective of this contribution is to reconstruct Ceredi’s work by analyzing the hydraulic machines he redesigned, starting from rediscovered ancient and early Renaissance models that, in some cases, are known and in others, completely unknown.

With his 1567 work, Tre discorsi sopra il modo d’alzar acque da’ luoghi bassi as a point of departure, this research has brought to light some biographical information on the author, completely unknown in the scientific literature, as well as the Philosophia Naturalis model that influenced his work as a proto-engineer.

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  2. LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics, University of Cassino and South Latium, Cassino, Italy

    Marco Ceccarelli

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Traetta, L. (2019). Giuseppe Ceredi. A Hydraulic Engineer in 16th-Century Italy. In: Zhang, B., Ceccarelli, M. (eds) Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03538-9_2

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