• Giovanni Branca (22 April 1571 – 24 January 1645) was an Italian engineer and architect, chiefly remembered today for what some commentators have taken...
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  • Portuguese royal Infanta Branca of Portugal (1259–1321), Portuguese nun Giovanni Branca (1571–1645), Italian architect Wilhelm von Branca (born 1844), German...
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  • In Toulouse, Niall Ó Glacáin publishes Tractatus de Peste. In Rome, Giovanni Branca publishes Le Machine volume nuovo, et di molto artificio da fare effetti...
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    device was described by Taqi al-Din in Ottoman Egypt in 1551 and by Giovanni Branca in Italy in 1629. The Spanish inventor Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont...
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    Sohn. Bosco, Umberto (25 July 2024). "Giovanni Boccaccio". Encyclopædia Britannica. Branca, Vittore (1977). Giovanni Boccaccio: profilo biografico (in Italian)...
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    steam jacks. Another similar rudimentary steam turbine is shown by Giovanni Branca, an Italian engineer, in 1629 for turning a cylindrical escapement...
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    like Giovanni Branca, Galileo Ferraris, Beniamino Franklin, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Nicola Zabaglia; Typographers, such as Giovanni Battista...
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    rudimentary steam turbine device was described by Taqi al-Din in 1551 and by Giovanni Branca in 1629. In the 13th century, the solid rocket motor was invented in...
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    1621) April 17 – Adam Contzen, German economist (d. 1635) April 22 – Giovanni Branca, Italian architect and engineer (d. 1645) April 24 – Sur Singh, Ruler...
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  • publishes a book showing a device similar to that of Porta. 1629 (1629): Giovanni Branca suggests using a steam turbine device similar to that described by...
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    rotating a spit. Steam turbines were also described by the Italian Giovanni Branca (1629) and John Wilkins in England (1648). The devices described by...
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    January 17 – Pál Esterházy, Hungarian noble (b. 1587) January 24 – Giovanni Branca, Italian architect and engineer (b. 1571) January 30 – Mary Ward, English...
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    and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. A man with strong religious roots, he participated in the partisan struggle during the Second World War. Branca spent much...
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  • Bialetti Lucio Bini Augusto Bissiri Claudio Bordignon Enea Bossi, Sr. Giovanni Branca Francesco Antonio Broccu Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli Tito Livio Burattini...
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  • Ayanz y Beaumont (1606), Giambattista della Porta,[citation needed] Giovanni Branca (1629), Cosimo de' Medici (1641),[citation needed] Evangelista Torricelli...
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    Bonaiuto Lorini, Fausto Veranzio, Mariano Zonca, Famiano Strada, Giovanni Branca. The Italian engineer is often called abroad as a consultant ... "List...
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    al-Din demonstrates a steam turbine, used to rotate a spit. 1629 – Giovanni Branca demonstrates a steam turbine. 1662 – Robert Boyle publishes Boyle's...
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  • January 17 – Pál Esterházy, Hungarian noble (b. 1587) January 24 – Giovanni Branca, Italian architect and engineer (b. 1571) January 30 – Mary Ward, English...
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    Bonaiuto Lorini, Fausto Veranzio, Mariano Zonca, Famiano Strada, Giovanni Branca. The Italian engineer is often called abroad as a consultant ... "List...
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    1621) April 17 – Adam Contzen, German economist (d. 1635) April 22 – Giovanni Branca, Italian architect and engineer (d. 1645) April 24 – Sur Singh, Ruler...
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  • Enea Bossi Sr. (1888–1963), aerospace engineer and aircraft designer Giovanni Branca (1571–1645), engineer and architect Tito Livio Burattini (1617–1681)...
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    manuscripts were widely circulated, Branca thought that they influenced all subsequent illustrations. In 1962 Branca identified Codex Hamilton 90, in Berlin's...
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  • Giulio Branca (December 15, 1851 – February 28, 1926) was an Italian sculptor, active mainly in Milan. He was born in Cannobio, a Piedmont town on Lago...
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  • copying manuscripts was a very popular pastime there. Literary critic Vittore Branca has characterized these Florentines, who were not professional copyists...
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  • for a steam turbine as a prime mover for rotating a spit, predating Giovanni Branca's later impulse steam turbine from 1629. Taqi al-Din described such...
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    practical applications as a prime mover for rotating a spit, predating Giovanni Branca's later impulse steam turbine from 1629. 15th century Classical Oriental...
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    foreign affairs, forming a coalition cabinet with a part of the Left under Giovanni Nicotera. His administration proved vacillating, but it initiated the economic...
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    Branca, which was once dubbed "The Temple of Music" by the famed opera composer Gaetano Donizetti. The piece was commissioned by her husband Giovanni...
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  • Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. OCLC 54905371. Branca, Vittore, ed. (1977). Lauro Quirini umanista: studi e testi. Florence: Leo...
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    ISSN 2792-7423. Branca & Abate 2019, p. 171. Branca & Abate 2019, p. 175. Branca et al. 2015, p. 38. Branca et al. 2015, p. 36. Carbone, Lentini & Branca 2009,...
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