Hydraulic Whell, illustration fron X Liber of Vitruvius’ “De Architectura” edited by Fra Giocondo.
Giovanni Giocondo da Verona, named Fra’ Giocondo was an Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, classical scholar and treatizer. He published the first illustrated edition of “De Architettura” by Vitruvius. In the X liber, about machines, he put a lot of drawing using his knowledge of designer of hydraulic machines and building machines.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, architect, designer, treatizer.