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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman architect/engineer, who in his treatise “De Architectura” in I B.C. described in great detail design and operation of machines for civil engineering. The treatise is a comprehensive reference from Antiquity that, having been rediscovered during the Renaissance, was studied and reprinted both for its historical background and for technical inspiration. In this chapter the focus is on machine developments.
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It is named “Editio princeps”, the first printed edition of a manuscript from Antiquity or Middle Ages.
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Cigola, M., Ceccarelli, M. (2014). Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Second Half of the Ist Century B.C.). In: Ceccarelli, M. (eds) Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8947-9_15
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