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    Pompeo Targone (1575 – c. 1630), son of a Venetian goldsmith, was an Italian engineer in the service of popes Clement VIII and Paul V. He built the ciborium...
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  • sculptor of the neoclassical school Pompeo Posar (1921–2004), Playboy magazine staff photographer Pompeo Targone, Italian military engineer in the service...
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    initial idea for blocking the channel came from the Italian engineer Pompeo Targone, but his structure was broken by winter weather, before the idea was...
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    invented separately in Europe in 1580 by the Italian military engineer Pompeo Targone. It was featured in a treatise by the Italian engineer and writer Vittorio...
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    innovative and inventive ways to take Ostend. One of these was an inventor; Pompeo Targone, a Venetian engineer in the service of the Pope who devised and constructed...
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    order to stop all supplies to the city came from the Italian engineer Pompeo Targone, but his structure was broken by the winter weather. The endeavour was...
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    in Chinese texts until Ming Dynasty. The Italian military engineer Pompeo Targone, who was most notably involved in the Siege of La Rochelle (1627-1628)...
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    September Mutiny of Hoogstraten begins. November Military engineer Pompeo Targone arrives in the camp before Ostend. 1603 26 May Federico Spinola dies...
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    Left image: Original Pompeo Targone field mill in Zonca's treatise of 1607. Right image: Chinese adaptation of the field mill in Diagrams and explanations...
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    Pompeo Targone's field mill in Zonca's treatise of 1607...
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  • Padovano; p. 208 Paolo San Quirico; p. 210 Bastiano Torrisani; p. 211 Pompeo Targone; p. 216 Domenico Passignano; p. 218 Andrea Comodo p. 220 Filippo Napolitano;...
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