Le machine
Subtitle: volume nuouo et di molto artificio da fare effetti marauigliosi tanto spiritali quanto di animale operatione arichito di bellissime figure conle dichiarationi a ciascuna di esse in lingua uolgare et latina
By: del sig[no]r Giouanni Branca cittadino romano, ingegniero & architetto della S[an]ta Casa di Loreto ...
Publisher: Ad ista[n]za di Iacomo Martuci ... per Iacomo Mascardi
Published: 1629
Place of publication: In Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Machinery
Notes: Signatures: A-Vp4s.

Recto of each numbered leaf is an ill. with descriptive letterpress in Italian and Latin on verso of previous leaf.

Figura XXV is the first published illustration of a steam impulse turbine, a mechanism earlier described by Leonardo da Vinci in the Codex Hammer (fol. 28v)

Section 2 comprises "machine da alzare acqua", and section 3, "machine spirituali".

Illustrations: Engraved title page; 77 woodcut plates.