Vittorio Zonca

1568 - 1603

Vittorio Zonca 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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