Taccola
Italian artist and engineer · Italy · Scientists · Lived 1382 to 1453 · aged 71
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Something wrong?Mariano di Jacopo, called Taccola, was a Sienese polymath, administrator, artist and engineer of the early Italian Renaissance. His technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis contain numerous annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices.
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Mariano di Jacopo, called Taccola, was a Sienese polymath, administrator, artist and engineer of the early Italian Renaissance. His technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis contain numerous annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices. His work was widely studied and copied by later Renaissance engineers and artists, among them Francesco di Giorgio, and Leonardo da Vinci.
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