Vittorio Zonca

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer.

He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

[1][2] 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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Pompeo Targone 's field mill in Zonca's treatise of 1607
Adaptation of Zonca's field mill in the Chinese book Qiqi Tushuo (1627), by Johann Schreck and Wang Zheng
Endless screw and winch, in Zonca's treatise of 1607