Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Second Half of the Ist Century B.C.)

Abstract

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman architect/engineer, who in his treatise "De Architectura" in I B.C. described in great detail design and operation of machines for civil engineering. The treatise is a comprehensive reference from Antiquity that, having been rediscovered during the Renaissance, was studied and reprinted both for its historical background and for technical inspiration. In this chapter the focus is on machine developments.