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Theatrum Machinarum Novum Georg Blocker

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Theatrum Machinarum Novum Georg Blocker
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This is a first edition, printed in German 1661. First edition in latin, following the German edition of 1661. Georg Andreas Bockler was the city engineer for Nuremburg in the mid-17th century. He published several profusely illustrated books on mills, water works, and other technological marvels. These books are representative of the so-called "theaters of machines" that were immensely popular during the renaissance. The Theatrum Machinarum Novum contains more than 100 full page plates of mills and other machines driven by water, animal, wind, and human power, not a few of which are fanciful imaginings of perpetual motion machines. Condition: Missing plate No. 154. Slight staining to pages 69-73. Short tear at page 72, and also tear at page 113.