Article
The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420
The Public Domain Review
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Subjects
- Johannes Fontana (1395-approximately 1455) -- Notebooks sketchbooks etc.,
- Johannes Fontana (1395-approximately 1455) -- Criticism and interpretation,
- Engineers -- Italy -- 15th century
Disciplines
Abstract
Bennett Gilbert peruses the sketchbook of 15th-century engineer Johannes de Fontana, a catalogue of designs for a variety of fantastic and often impossible inventions, including fire-breathing automatons, pulley-powered angels, and the earliest surviving drawing of a magic lantern device.
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http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/01/24/the-dreams-of-an-inventor-in-1420/
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/23720
Citation Information
Gilbert, B. (2018). The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420. The Public Domain Review.
This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license which permits others to redistribute the article, given that they credit the author and the publication and also publish under a similar license.