Agostino Ramelli , c.1531-c.1600, Italian engineer who served in the armies of the marquis de Marignan and of the duc d'Anjou (later Henry III of France). His book, Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine (1558), urged the application of mathematics to mechanics and contained many illustrations and explanations of water-powered machines such as pumps, derricks, grinding mills, sawmills, bridges, and engines for military uses. Ramelli's designs were very inventive and often required precise machining that was impossible in his day.
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Pierluigi Calignano
Artforum; 7/1/2007; Noé, Paola; 507 words;
... individual life story. Thus, ingenious machines from Leonardo's or Agostino Rarnelli's Renaissance studies of hydraulics coexist with light ... 2007-scrupulously and precisely based on those designed by Ramelli in his studies for water mills. These served as frames for ...
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Reading Is Fundamental
The Washington Post; 9/14/2001; Michael O'Sullivan; 1271 words;
... show the least evidence of having been read. A fascinating image opens the show: a reproduction of a 1588 print by Agostino Ramelli of a bookwheel, a huge mechanical device that facilitated the reading of several volumes simultaneously, or rather ...
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Men at work in Dutch art, or keeping one's nose to the grindstone.
The Art Bulletin; 12/1/2007; Kettering, Alison M.; 18042 words;
... and the latest mechanized inventions to richly illustrated journals, such as L'Illustration or the Illustrated London News, which frequently took current events relating to industrialization as their topics. Van Gogh's Artisans Rather few of ... Braunschweig: Technische Hochschule, 1930), figs. 62, 69, 73. For the ...
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Books: Adventures in the cock-fighting chair
The Independent - London; 7/13/1996; DJ Taylor; 1121 words;
... paraphernalia of reading, its cosy appurtenances, like the "rotary reading desk" designed by the Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli sometime in the sixteenth century, or the "cockfighting chair" custom-made for Georgian libraries, in which the reader ...
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(book reviews)
Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1998; Long, Pamela O.; 613 words;
... including agricultural books, the writings of the artisan Bernard Palissy, and the machine books of Jacques Besson and Agostino Ramelli. Heller uses such books to point to a growing interest in invention and in empirically based science. The author ...
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OBITUARIES
The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/27/2004; 1157 words;
... Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Arrangements: D'Agostino Funeral Home, Wanaque. JOHN J. DURFEE, 46, of Ringwood, formerly ... years. Arrangements: Allwood Funeral Home, Clifton. CONCETTA RAMELLI SASSARINI, 88, of Clifton died Wednesday. She was born in Italy ...
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