'Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine' (1588), title page. This work is by Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli (). It contains nearly 200 design

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'Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine' (1588), title page. This work is by Italian engineer Agostino Ramelli (). It contains nearly 200 designs for devices, many of them water-raising machines including pumps, mills, fountains, and wells. This title page states that the text of the book is given in both Italian and French.

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