Giovanni Branca

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Steam or hot air turbine driving a rammer in Le Machine , Fig. 25.

Giovanni Branca (born April 22, 1571 in Sant'Angelo in Lizzola , † January 24, 1645 in Loreto ) was an Italian engineer, architect and architectural theorist.

In 1629 he was the first in the West to describe a steam turbine , but the Ottoman-Turkish polymath Taqi al-Din had already described a steam turbine in one of his works before Branca in 1551. His Handbuch der Architektur, also published in 1629, was published several times up to 1772 and was considered a particularly popular work of its kind.

Works

  • Basilica della Santa Casa , Loreto
  • Le Machine. Volume nuovo et di molto artificio da fare effetti maravigliosi tanto spiritali quanto di animale operations… . Rome 1629
  • Manuale d'Architettura . Rome 1629
personal data
SURNAME Branca, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian engineer, architect and architectural theorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Sant'Angelo in Lizzola
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1645
Place of death Loreto