Giovanni Branca
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
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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 |