Machine designs and drawings in renaissance editions of de architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Abstract

This paper is focused on machine designs of the Renaissance period through drawings reproducing Vitruvius’s machines from Book X of his De Architectura. The editions by Fra’ Giovanni Giocondo in 1513, Cesare Cesariano in 1521, and Daniele Barbaro in 1584 are used to analyze machine designs and drawings, both as an interpretation of Roman machines and inspiration for Renaissance designs.