Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Damerow, Peter
• Renn, Jürgen

Titel

Guidobaldo del Monte's Mechanicorum liber

Ort / Verlag

Edition Open Access

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Open Access
• The book presents Guidobaldo del Montes first book from 1577, the Mechanicorum liber, which is reprinted here in a facsimile edition. The book is a comprehensive treatise on mechanics dealing with the five simple machines, the lever, the pulley, the wheel on an axle, the wedge and the screw. Their properties were in turn derived from the workings of the balance and the lever. The idea that every mechanism can be reduced to these five simple machines goes back to Heron of Alexandria and has been transmitted to the early modern period by Pappus, while the foundational role of balance and lever goes back to the Problemata mechanica ascribed to Aristotle
• English