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3 unusual facts about Agostino Ramelli


Crankshaft

From the 16th century onwards, evidence of cranks and connecting rods integrated into machine design becomes abundant in the technological treatises of the period: Agostino Ramelli's The Diverse and Artifactitious Machines of 1588 alone depicts eighteen examples, a number that rises in the Theatrum Machinarum Novum by Georg Andreas Böckler to 45 different machines, one third of the total.

Gian Giacomo Medici

The great engineer Agostino Ramelli trained with Gian Giacomo, who instructed him in mathematics and architecture.

Sabatino de Ursis

In 1612, Sabatino translated orally a work by Agostino Ramelli on hydraulic mechanisms, which was put into Chinese by Xú Guāngqĭ.



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