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This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological finds, often very little known, mainly from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae and reveal a surprising modernity in their conception. Most of the inventions presented in the first four parts of the book...

Non detti in pianto vedendo la luce. Il che manifestò il mio carattere pacifico". Così Carlo Goldoni presentando se stesso nei Mémoires. La capacità di opporre ai dolori la serenità, gli permise di "ciacolare" sulle pecche dei contemporanei come proprie di tutta l'umanità. Così, se pranzeremo con i suoi personaggi, li riconosceremo immediatamente: l'avaro ci servirà "roba brodosa", la donna emancipata "intingoletti e salsette", mentre la scalt...

This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological finds, often very little known, mainly from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae and reveal a surprising modernity in their conception. Most of the inventions presented in the first four parts of the book...