Online Sources

Jürgen Renn; Peter Damerow

Part 1: On this Book
1 The Author
2 The Context
3 The Book
4
Online Sources
Bibliography
Facsimile Reproduction

4 Online Sources

Chapter structure

TY  - CHAP
T1  - Online Sources
T2  - Guidobaldo del Monte's Mechanicorum Liber
A1  - Jürgen Renn
A1  - Peter Damerow
AB  - The book is the first volume of the series Sources of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge. It presents Guidobaldo del Monte's first book from 1577, the Mechanicorum liber, which is reprinted here in a facsimile edition. The book is a comprehensive treatise on mechanics dealing with the five simple machines, the lever, the pulley, the wheel on an axle, the wedge, and the screw. Their properties were in turn derived from the workings of the balance and the lever. The idea that every mechanism can be reduced to these five simple machines goes back to Heron of Alexandria and has been transmitted to the early modern period by Pappus, while the foundational role of balance and lever goes back to the Problemata Mechanica ascribed to Aristotle.
PB  - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
PY  - 2010
SN  - 978-3-945561-25-6
LK  - https://edition-open-sources.org/sources/1/4/index.html
C1  - by-nc-sa
DO  - 10.34663/9783945561256-04
LA  - english
ER  -

The open access repository European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science continuously extends its collection of sources, which are freely accessible as text files in xml format and/or as high quality via its website echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Currently, the following sources mentioned in the present publication and listed below are accessible this way.