In the western world, the practice of machine construction and the theory of mechanics came together at the end of the Renaissance with two lines of development: treatises in the form of rationally classified machine collections and machine studies as an application of mechanical physics.
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Paz, E. B., Ceccarelli, M., Otero, J. E., & Sanz, J. L. M. (2010). A vision on machines. In History of Mechanism and Machine Science (Vol. 10, pp. 169–205). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8_8
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