Vittorio Zonca

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.^[1][2]

Pompeo Targone's field mill in Zonca's treatise of 1607

Adaptation of Zonca's field mill in the Chinese book Qiqi Tushuo (1627), by Johann Schreck and Wang Zheng

Endless screw and winch, in Zonca's treatise of 1607

Some of his plates were translated into Chinese by Johann Schreck and published in the 1627 Chinese book on European mechanical arts Diagrams and explanations of the wonderful machines of the Far West.^[3]

Works

• Vittorio Zonca Novo Teatro di Machine et Edificii, Padua 1607.
• Zonca, Vittorio (1607). Nouo teatro di machine et edificii per uarie et sicure operationi con le loro figure tagliate in rame e la dichiaratione, e dimostratione di ciascuna. Opera necessaria ad architetti, et a quelli, che di tale studio si dilettano, Di Vittorio Zonca architetto della magnifica communita di Padoua ... All'ill.mo ... Ranuccio Gambara conte di Virola Alghisi. In Padova: appresso Pietro Bertelli.