About Vittorio Zonca
Lived 1568 – 1602 (aged 33–34). Vittorio Zonca was an Italian inventor and architect.
Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.
Some of his plates were translated into Chinese by Johann Schreck and published in the 1627 Chinese book on European mechanical arts Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West.
Works Vittorio Zonca Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii, Padua 1607.
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Italian engineer and writer
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Vittorio Zonca was born in 1568 in Padua.
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Vittorio Zonca died on 15 November 1602 in Padua.
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Vittorio Zonca was an inventor and architect.
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