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Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original cloth boards
Pagination: pp. viii, 303, [1]
Collation: A 4 B–U 8
Size: 213x136 mm
The design and operations of the Jacquard loom and its
variants are described herein, as well as the manner in
which they are set up to produce weavings of various
kinds.
Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752–1834) was a mechanic in
Lyons who had invented a machine for weaving fishing
nets. He appears to have begun experiments on improving
ordinary weaving looms about 1790—a model of a
machine of this date is in the Conservatoire des Arts et
Métier in Paris, but it is not a Jacquard loom as we know
it today. About 1804, he was brought to Paris to repair
Vaucanson’s loom (an earlier punched tape version of
the automatic loom), and it seems that his attention was
drawn to the potential of this technology at that time.
Jacquard’s birth name was Joseph Marie Charles—the
extended family had nicknames for each branch, and he
adopted the nickname Jacquard as his formal surname.
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Belli, Silvio Vicentin (–1575)
Libro del misurar con la vista …. Nel quale
s’insegna, senza trauagliar con numeri, a misurar
facilissimamente le distantie, l’altezze, e le profondità
con il quadrato geometrico, e con altri stromenti, de’
Erwin Tomash Library
Belli, Silvio Vicentin Belli, Silvio Vicentin
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quali in ogni luogo quasi in un subito si puo prouedere.
Si mostra ancora una bellissima uia di ritrouare
la profondità di qual si uoglia mare; & un modo
industrioso di misurar il circuito di tutta la terra.
Year: 1565
Place: Venice
Publisher: Giordano Ziletti
Edition: 1st
Language: Italian
Figures: 54 woodcut diagrams in text
Binding: 18th-century Italian paper boards
Pagination: pp. [8], 108
Collation: * 4 A–N 4 O 2
Size: 194x140 mm
Reference: Rcdi BMI Vol. I, p. 107; Kie SI, p. 116
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Belli taught mathematics in Vicenza and was a founding
member of the Accademia Olimpica in 1555. He later
became an architect, practicing in Ferrara, Modena,
Rome and Venice.
His work on surveying was very popular and had at least
six editions in the sixteenth century. It was later combined
with another of Belli’s works (Della Proportione, 1573)
and published as Quattro libri giometici in 1595.
In this book Belli deals mainly with simple survey
problems for which rough estimates of distances and
heights suffice and describes the use of a geometrical
square with a sighting vane. He gives many examples
of estimating the solution to a problem by creating
scale drawings on drumheads (essentially using them
as a plane table), improvising survey instruments from
a pair of sticks and even estimating distances using the