Cover: Codice Madrid I (facsimile title plate)
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Physics & MechanicsSpanish title page: treatise on statics and mechanics
Folio 0r: blank leaf with reversed title show-through
Physics & MechanicsPreface: a petition to the reader and perpetual motion
Machines & DevicesEccentric cam-wheel and the flaws of machine motion
Machines & DevicesCranks on a shared bar: the problem of full rotation
Machines & DevicesThe teeth of wheels and why clocks keep unequal time
Machines & DevicesAn inclined rack, a crown-gear, and 'contrary rubbing'
ArchitectureWhere an arch breaks, and the true running of rollers
Machines & DevicesOn Wheels: Gear Trains and the Matching of Teeth
Language & LatinVerb List in 'abb-' and the Power of Gear Teeth
Machines & DevicesA Spring-Driven Toothed Drum and the Unequal Force of Springs
Physics & MechanicsThe 'Mistress' Balance and Tests of Springs and the Screw
Machines & DevicesGear-Tooth Contact, Leverage and Friction
Machines & DevicesGear Teeth, Clock Timing, Joints, and the Sun at the Horizon
GeologyThe Common Center of Earth and Water; a Bell Motion
AstronomyWhy a Sunlit Sphere Casts a Columnar, Not Conical, Shadow
Machines & DevicesProportioning Gear Teeth Between a Large and Small Wheel
Machines & DevicesLinkages that Convert Lifting into Sliding Motion
Machines & DevicesMotions for Clockwork: Contrary, Reciprocating, Push-and-Pull
Machines & DevicesSprings, a Screw and a Quarter-Circle Among Machine Elements
Machines & DevicesClockwork devices and a definition of discontinuous motion
Machines & DevicesClock spring, ratchet teeth, and self-releasing weight hooks
Machines & DevicesOne-piece link chains, circular springs, and raising water
Machines & DevicesGreat wheel driving a lantern pinion with a counterweight
Machines & DevicesA wheel best kept near its poles; crank-and-rod motions
Machines & DevicesMeshing lantern-pinion teeth; right and left motion
Machines & DevicesHour-striking clock mechanism and counterweight balances
Machines & DevicesWorn pivots and the best bearings for wheels
Machines & DevicesWear of gear pivots, steel bearings, and tooth ratios
Machines & DevicesGear-train directions, spring winding, and gimbal rings
Machines & DevicesSpring winder with worm screw, and centerless wheels
Machines & DevicesMaking a clock's mainspring, and rules for screws
Machines & DevicesSpring-and-screw mechanism with a self-shifting locking key
Machines & DevicesRules of gearing: pinions, wheels and direction of turn
Machines & DevicesThe fusee: equalising a spring's diminishing force
Machines & DevicesGear trains, shaft torsion and skewed tooth-meshing
Machines & DevicesReciprocating motion from a one-way handle (7th species)
Machines & DevicesThe endless screw for safe hoisting; a saw drive
Machines & DevicesScrews that push and pull, and weight balanced on its pole
Machines & DevicesGun-lock firing mechanism, endless screw and springs
Machines & DevicesThe perpetual screw and its equality of force in clocks
Machines & DevicesReversing gear-train and the balance of a loaded screw
Machines & DevicesGear-tooth wear and a one-way ratchet clutch
Machines & DevicesWooden-ball bearing and the turning of pinions
Machines & DevicesIntermittent Reversing Gear and the Momentum of Flywheels
Machines & DevicesTwo Flywheel Mechanisms with Shaft, Roller and Toothed Rack
Machines & DevicesSelf-Gripping Lifting Tongs that Hold Tighter Under Load
HydraulicsHarnessing a Tall, Thin Waterfall to Drive a Bucket Wheel
Machines & DevicesCord Drives versus Toothed Gears: Silence against Din
Machines & DevicesA Giant Auger for Boring Holes in the Ground
Machines & DevicesToothed wheels driving sliders along channels
Machines & DevicesA lifting jack and the force needed to raise a weight
Machines & DevicesCluster of tubes on a screw shaft, with dividers
HydraulicsWooden water conduits and pump pipes
Physics & MechanicsRollers versus balls, and the bending of loaded supports
Machines & DevicesHow wheels drive one another and their turning
Machines & DevicesClock counterweight and transverse motion from one wheel
Machines & DevicesA striking clock: the going train and hour-striking gears
Machines & DevicesTwo devices for slow reciprocating motion
Physics & MechanicsMotions of unequal force from off-centre driving wheels
Physics & MechanicsVarying power in an eccentric drive and a two-wheel gear
Machines & DevicesA pinion that advances, returns and rotates in a ring
Machines & DevicesWheel driving an axle in and out through a slot
Machines & DevicesHalf-toothed wheel and twin pinions driving a reciprocating axle
Machines & DevicesOdd-toothed and half-toothed wheels for controlled turning
Optics & LightStudies of shadow, light-angles, and the cutting of a saw
Physics & MechanicsTypes of pivots and a vane that catches the air
Machines & DevicesPush-and-pull wheel motion and a weighted water tube
Physics & MechanicsWeighing lead against water: a specific-gravity experiment
Physics & MechanicsHauling weights on wheels: line of traction and a twin-nut screw
Machines & DevicesTall hoisting frame and the plan of a cart's wheels
Civil EngineeringLoading a bombard onto a cart: Lombard and German methods
Physics & MechanicsScrew versus wheel: equal work by two men in one hour
Machines & DevicesWorm screw driving a toothed rack
Machines & DevicesGeared windlasses with toothed wheels for hoisting
Machines & DevicesCompound levers built from toothed wheels and pulleys
Physics & MechanicsRaising a spar: the level line versus the oblique
Machines & DevicesInstrument fitted to a beam's end to raise it with a lever
Machines & DevicesBeam that raises itself by rocking on a toothed post
Machines & DevicesRotary hauling machine that pulls loads of any shape
Machines & DevicesSpring-driven gear drum with tempered spring and turning spool
Machines & DevicesMedal-stamping press and the impact of a single-tooth lifting wheel
Civil EngineeringRustic military bridge of lashed branches and an endless screw
Machines & DevicesHorse-driven walnut-oil mill with striking pestles and wedges
Physics & MechanicsA train of nine wedges and the halving of impact force
Physics & MechanicsKey-operated grappling hooks, pivot motion and hammer percussion
Machines & DevicesRope-and-stirrup device for climbing from low to high
Physics & MechanicsWhy clocks run slow in damp weather; force along the line of motion
Machines & DevicesKeys, latches and screw-jacks for lifting
Machines & DevicesSprings and counter-levers acting on an iron catch
Machines & DevicesA spring lock released by a key, and coupled lever motion
Physics & MechanicsThe science of projectile flight and crossbow design
Physics & MechanicsThe Crossbow: Force, Weight and the Flight of Bolts
Physics & MechanicsPrimary and Derivative Force; a Four-Wheel Gear Train
Physics & MechanicsForce as Line and Arc: an Eightfold Proportion
Physics & MechanicsForce, Weight, Percussion and Motion: the Four Powers
Machines & DevicesA Screw-Bent Saw for Cutting Iron; Crossbow Force Ratios
Machines & DevicesSending a Thing Aloft by the Force of Wind
Machines & DevicesBoring tool, plane-iron, and canvas-stretching frames
Physics & MechanicsRange of a stone-thrower and the physics of the crossbow
Machines & DevicesTwo forked iron implements and a spoked wheel
Machines & DevicesCompound screw with seven nuts and the 'sophistic wheel'
Machines & DevicesThe reversed screw (vite retrosa) and a self-moving cart
Weapons & FortificationBallistics of the bombard: firing upward and with the wind
Physics & MechanicsDescent of arrows and their penetration into the ground
Weapons & FortificationFiring an arquebus into a hooped barrel
Physics & MechanicsGunpowder versus crossbow force, and a mirror drop test
Physics & MechanicsMarking a point on a spinning wheel; laws of gravity
Physics & MechanicsRicochet of bombard balls and a 700-pound ball's 28 bounces
Machines & DevicesA spring-driven clock escapement tooth
Machines & DevicesWedge joints and the two-piece pivot of a compass
Physics & MechanicsA device to break a fall: percussion cushioned by wool
Physics & MechanicsPercussion and bounce; a tool to draw out a crossbow bolt
Physics & MechanicsStudies of the bent lever and its lifting forces
Machines & DevicesWind-driven gimbal to keep a man upright on a hill
Physics & MechanicsApparent speed of runners; weight over a wedge
Physics & MechanicsFriction and the motion of weights over planes
Machines & DevicesThe spinning machine: bobbin, flyer and the twisting of thread
Machines & DevicesAn axle borne on two wheels, and a large geared wheel
Machines & DevicesSelf-closing door latches, hinge-straps and screw fittings
Machines & DevicesDoor hardware and a screw-press: locks, bolts and force
Machines & DevicesA spinning machine for eighteen women: wheels and gearing
Machines & DevicesPulleys for lifting weights and a geared train
Machines & DevicesThe 'wheel of augmentation' machine
HydraulicsThe fall of water onto mill wheels
Machines & DevicesA man-powered treadwheel and cart-wheel motion
Machines & DevicesClock hammers, the worm screw, and equal effort on a bar
Physics & MechanicsBalancing a heavy body with oblique cords; a man-powered mill
Physics & MechanicsThe balance: equal weights and the angle of the cords
Physics & MechanicsLifting a heavy body: spiritual and material levers
Physics & MechanicsBending a body by a cord: powers of the motors a b c d e
Physics & MechanicsRule to find the centre of the arc of right angles
Physics & MechanicsDragging a weight of 12 with friction; the lever rule continued
Physics & MechanicsGeneral rule for bending a heavy body about its pole
Physics & MechanicsFriction on a Loaded Cord and a 'Sophistic Motion' Device
Physics & MechanicsOnset of Sliding Friction and Oblique Pulling
GeometryTapered Rollers, a Cord-Breaking Ratio, and a Mirror Template
Physics & MechanicsHow Angled Cords Carry Extra 'Accidental' Weight
Physics & MechanicsLoads in the Three Cords of a Suspended Beam
Physics & MechanicsCords Under Accidental Load; 'Tested' Beam Experiments
Physics & MechanicsWeights on cords and levers: a general rule of proportion
Physics & MechanicsLoaded Struts and the Sharing of Weight on Supports
Physics & MechanicsThe general rule of loaded cords proved on the triangle
GeometryA glossary of geometry for the science of weights
Physics & MechanicsA weight on a pulley finds the middle of a slack cord
Machines & DevicesSprings for locks: weak-and-wide versus strong-and-short
Physics & MechanicsWeight of a Body Turning on a Wheel or Rod about a Pole
Physics & MechanicsFree Fall and the Articulated Lever
Machines & DevicesWheel that Drives a Screw Now Right, Now Left
Machines & DevicesBending a Composite Beam by Screw; Launching a Rocket
Machines & DevicesPlan for a Treatise on the Screw and its Lever
Physics & MechanicsThe Simple Beam-Balance and a Furrow-Straightening Plough
Physics & MechanicsBalance-beam experiments and a rule of division
Machines & DevicesMaking sword-scabbard boards from green wood
Machines & DevicesSelf-disengaging screw-and-nut mechanism
Physics & MechanicsOn the bending of springs; tempering iron; dragging loads
Machines & DevicesSprings and the fusee: equalizing a spring's force
Physics & MechanicsJack teeth, dragged loads, and crossbow springs
Machines & DevicesCrank handles converting rotary motion into saw-like reciprocation
Machines & DevicesScrew and windlass: obliquity of the thread and lever proportions
Physics & MechanicsResting angle of a leaning beam; gear trains for contrary motions
Physics & MechanicsStatics of the balance: how a hung weight divides between two cords
Physics & MechanicsBalance with pyramidal arms; distinguishing weight from cord-force
Physics & MechanicsAcceleration of falling bodies: velocity gained, time lost
Physics & MechanicsCounterweights on a balance and the infinite
Physics & MechanicsHow a struck cube dilates into a circle
Physics & MechanicsThe centre, the struck cube, and a man's leap
Machines & DevicesA rope-and-lever linkage that raises a foot
Machines & DevicesMechanical sketches: linkages, screw press and wheel
Machines & DevicesTools for cutting male and female screw threads
Machines & DevicesCam-wheel and trip-hammers (faint leadpoint study)
Machines & DevicesCam-wheel raising three hammers
Machines & DevicesCones that raise a wheel's teeth to turn it
Machines & DevicesSteering carts and three rotating loads
Weapons & FortificationCrossbow release and the lever of a screw
Physics & MechanicsForce and motion of the lever and screw
Physics & MechanicsWater, air and fire forced through tubes by wind
HydraulicsPercussion and circular motion of water in a vessel
Machines & DevicesGear-tooth durability and a device to lock a power
Machines & DevicesDoor-latch and lock mechanisms; form follows function
Physics & MechanicsThe man-treading wheel: body weight versus force in hoists
Machines & DevicesWheels and lantern-pinions: tooth counts and direction of drive
Machines & DevicesFaint machine sketches on 97v; folio 98r left blank
Physics & MechanicsBalances on pivots and the key mechanism
Physics & MechanicsSix one-pound weights and their counterweights
Machines & DevicesFixing pivots with simple and double wedges
Machines & DevicesWear of mill-lantern spindles and ox-horn oiling
Machines & DevicesTypes of pivots, including a universal joint
Physics & MechanicsPivot bearings and gear-tooth lever engagement
Physics & MechanicsThree balls under a pivot beat four: wear and friction
Physics & MechanicsAnti-friction wheels stacked to infinity; steel pivots
Physics & MechanicsWear of pivots by position; two contrary motions
Physics & MechanicsFriction reduced toward infinity; a giant calculation
Machines & DevicesSilk-winding machine with worm gear and spring tensioner
Machines & DevicesSpring-Driven Reels for Winding Thread and Braid
Machines & DevicesSpring-Wound Reels and Bobbin Details
Machines & DevicesA Wedge Running in a Channel to Press an Object
Physics & MechanicsAxioms of Statics: Equal Weights on a Balance
Physics & MechanicsPropositions of Statics: Weights, Cords and Supports
Physics & MechanicsWeights on Right-Angled Arms: Equilibrium by Position
Physics & MechanicsLevers and Counterlevers: Real and Potential Arms
Physics & MechanicsWeights on Cords and a Screw for Forcing Things Apart
Physics & MechanicsReal and Potential Arms of the Balance; a Graduated Wheel
Physics & MechanicsAngles and Rectangles of the Balance: Real, Semireal, Potential
Physics & MechanicsThe Three Right Angles of the Balance
Physics & MechanicsGravity, Resistance, and the Beginning of Motion
ArchitectureTwo Roman Amphitheatres Revolving to Form a Theatre
Civil EngineeringLevelling and Measuring a Tunnel Bored Through a Mountain
Civil EngineeringInstrument for Boring a Mountain So Both Bores Meet
Physics & MechanicsOf Water: Why Water Driven Under Water Does Not Whistle
HydraulicsOf Water and Weight: Floating Wood and Shapes in Currents
Physics & MechanicsThe Power of Percussion: Hammers, Impact and Weight
Physics & MechanicsOn the Percussion of Dense Bodies
Physics & MechanicsReducing Friction on a Pole, and the Thrust of Arches
Physics & MechanicsThe Restless Sphere of Water, and Movers versus Moved
HydraulicsA Weight-Driven Table Fountain and the Force of Compressed Air
HydraulicsNature of the Motion of Water: Two Fountain Machines
Machines & DevicesClock Mechanisms and the Air-Braked 'Tempo' Regulator
Machines & DevicesTeeth and their alignments in meshing wheels
Machines & DevicesA tripled pawl tooth and its spring on a retaining wheel
Machines & DevicesThe ritenaculo: a ratchet wheel and its serving pawl
Machines & DevicesForm of gear teeth and wear of axle-pivots
Machines & DevicesThe pivots of wheels: friction, wear and lubrication
Machines & DevicesOn teeth and toothed wheels: the square-tooth construction
Machines & DevicesAxle-pivots: wear, bearing metals, and balancing a crank
Machines & DevicesScrew-driven toothed wheels and a diamond-tipped drill
Machines & DevicesDividing wheels into teeth and sizing wheels to pinions
Machines & DevicesGear teeth, toothed wheels, and the pinion
Physics & MechanicsThe screw and friction; screw power measured by the lever
Physics & MechanicsMeasuring the force of the screw and its triple friction
Physics & MechanicsWhy loads roll easily: axle friction and the lever
Physics & MechanicsDefinition and division of motion
Machines & DevicesWedge-and-tooth haulage, likened to a screw
Machines & DevicesA crank that turns a wheel one way; a floating ship
Machines & DevicesAxle natures; why a multiplying wheel hinders water-raising
HydraulicsThe nature of water: pipe width and the height it rises
Physics & MechanicsRebound, water in pipes, bellows, and lifting by descent
Physics & MechanicsStudies of a heavy beam moved on rollers, wheels, and sledges
Physics & MechanicsWhy a hammer-blow fails to drive an iron peg from wood
Physics & MechanicsHeaps of falling powder and circular waves in a struck vessel
Physics & MechanicsRaising a beam: lever, counter-lever, and center of weight
Physics & MechanicsFinding the center of gravity of a triangular pyramid
Physics & MechanicsForce-pyramids and the true centre of gravity
Physics & MechanicsThe pyramidal power of the balance arms
Physics & MechanicsBalancing unequal arms by inverse proportion
Physics & MechanicsGeneral rules of the balance
Physics & MechanicsHow a weight loads its support
Physics & MechanicsResistance of a support and its distance from the base
Physics & MechanicsDefinitions of Motion and Blowpipes for Pellets
Physics & MechanicsA Classification of the Kinds of Motion
Physics & MechanicsThe Perfect Balance and a Black-and-White Water Experiment
Physics & MechanicsImpact of Balls, a Water Splash and the Wearing of an Axle
Machines & DevicesWinding Wheel, Roller Between Pulleys and the Carmine Device
Physics & MechanicsLevers, the Perfect Balance and a Proof against Pellacane
Physics & MechanicsBalance puzzles and the centre of gravity of a quadrilateral
HydraulicsWhich fall of water strikes a wheel hardest
Physics & MechanicsBeam deflection, water weighed in a pump, and stable supports
Physics & MechanicsHow supports of doubled length bend under one weight
Physics & MechanicsWhich of four arcs bends most under equal weight
Physics & MechanicsLoading five arcs to one and the same deflection
Physics & MechanicsHow loaded beams bend under weight
Physics & MechanicsSharing a beam's load between its two supports
Machines & DevicesA balance instrument and beams resting on beams
Physics & MechanicsLevers, counterweights and a self-closing door
Physics & MechanicsBending of framed beams and the loading of pointed arches
Physics & MechanicsFriction, supports and where a loaded arch breaks
Physics & MechanicsFriction Between Bodies and the Bending of Loaded Beams
Physics & MechanicsThe Right-Angle Rule, Centre of Gravity of a Raised Beam, and the Wedge
Physics & MechanicsLoads on Raised Members, an Arch's Thrust, and a Warning to Architects
Physics & MechanicsThe Weight of Deep Water on a Man, and Ultra-Sensitive Balances
HydraulicsThe Percussion of Water and a Bladed Mill Wheel
Physics & MechanicsCounterweights on a Steelyard and Why a Wall Settles Away From Its Batter
Physics & MechanicsCentre of gravity of a triangle and a hanging pillar
Physics & MechanicsAn arrow shot straight up; a river current and a bridge
Physics & MechanicsForce versus weight; a pontoon bridge in a river current
Physics & MechanicsDefinitions of gravity; a glass-tube quicksilver balance
Physics & MechanicsOn weight (De peso): reworked definitions of gravity
Physics & MechanicsWhat weight and its centre are; impetus and a clock vane
Physics & MechanicsCentre of gravity and a device for weighing water
Physics & MechanicsThe three species of centres within a heavy body
Physics & MechanicsNatural and accidental motion: pendulum and thrown stones
Physics & MechanicsAn overbalanced weight-wheel and its percussions
Physics & MechanicsWhy the weight-wheel is 'sophistical' and will not turn
Physics & MechanicsTension in a loaded cord and pressure in a water cistern
Physics & MechanicsScrew-jacks, wedges, and driving oblique-pointed piles
Physics & MechanicsForce of enclosed water; falling weights and hung loads
HydraulicsWater's force on a cistern's bottom versus its sides
HydraulicsWhy water rises only 12 times the lead piston's height
Physics & MechanicsThe impossibility of perpetual motion; jets from pipes
HydraulicsLombard water-mills and the fall of water on the wheel
Physics & MechanicsForce, weight, motion, time; water jets from tubes
Machines & DevicesOn the counterweights of clocks
Physics & MechanicsCentre of gravity of a triangular prism; dragging a beam
Physics & MechanicsCentre of gravity of the pyramid; levers, beams and loads
Weapons & FortificationSighting a crossbow with a mirror; ties and struts
Physics & MechanicsWhy a twisted rope's outer strands bear the most load
Physics & MechanicsWhy tall columns and loaded ropes fail; ropes in pulley tackle
Physics & MechanicsCord strength, weight and resistance; the flight of an arrow
Physics & MechanicsThe imperfect pivot of the balance; proportion of weights
Physics & MechanicsSharing a load among balance cords by the rule of proportion
Physics & MechanicsFinding weights from their spacing; bounce of a rolling ball
Machines & DevicesGears, worm-screws and clock movements; where a rope breaks
Physics & MechanicsDistribution of a hung weight between two angled cords
Physics & MechanicsDefining the line of motion and the line of gravity
Physics & MechanicsAccidental weight, called force; balance diagrams
Physics & MechanicsCords, a struck cube, and the corded triangle a b d
Physics & MechanicsTransverse motion of a weight; lifting a long load by its centre
Physics & MechanicsGravity toward the centre; balls falling by different slopes
Physics & MechanicsDescending balls and the dragging of beams
Physics & MechanicsA weight acts only through its perpendicular
Physics & MechanicsWeights on cords and the collision of thrown balls
Physics & MechanicsHow the angle of the perpendicular loads a support
Physics & MechanicsSupports, balance arms, and four pulls of a ball
Physics & MechanicsThe balance law and a water-driven mirror polisher
Physics & MechanicsRule of Weights and the Compound Motion of a Toothed Wheel
Physics & MechanicsHow the Thickness of a Cord Shares a Suspended Weight
Physics & MechanicsTwo Cords of Unequal Thickness Sharing One Weight
Physics & MechanicsThe Simple Beam of a Balance and Where Its Weight Lies
Physics & MechanicsRule for Computing How a Beam Distributes Its Load
Physics & MechanicsSuspended and Angularly Supported Weights
Physics & MechanicsLoad shared between two cords supporting a beam
Physics & MechanicsRule of weight: added length unloads a support
Physics & MechanicsCords sharing a beam: equal and proportional loads
Machines & DevicesOblique versus level windlasses
Machines & DevicesWindlasses, rope-drums and the pressure in a bag
Physics & MechanicsPlate of beam, winch and pulley figures
Physics & MechanicsBalance-arm diagrams: proportional weights and pulleys
Physics & MechanicsThe general rule of weights on the arms of the balance
Physics & MechanicsBeginning of the book: support strength and lever balance
Physics & MechanicsLoad carried by pulleys and little wheels on a shared cord
Machines & DevicesFolding wooden joints for portable tables and pavilions
Physics & MechanicsWeights over unequal wheels, and the friction of dragging a beam
Physics & MechanicsWeight, rope and roller: why unequal diameters foil the motion
Physics & MechanicsWeight, blow and the multiplying wheel
Physics & MechanicsThe longer the cord, the easier the sideways pull
Physics & MechanicsPercussion and rebound: how a blow spends its impetus
Physics & MechanicsNo machine multiplies power: agent and patient weights
Physics & MechanicsLevers, screws and counterweights: force cannot be increased
Physics & MechanicsOn contact and motion: friction of a sliding weight
Physics & MechanicsRaising weights by inclined plane, pulley, screw and capstan
Physics & MechanicsWheels, axles and the perfect sphere at rest
Physics & MechanicsCenter of gravity and the bending of loaded supports
Physics & MechanicsThe law of the balance and motion on wheels and rollers
Physics & MechanicsBlows, the rounding cube, quicksilver and rising fire
Physics & MechanicsOn the Blow: united and disunited percussion
Physics & MechanicsOn the Blow: how struck iron and cubes deform
Physics & MechanicsOn Blow and Motion: percussion through air and water
Physics & MechanicsBlow and Force as accidental weight
Physics & MechanicsThe Blow in indivisible time; weighing bodies in water
Physics & MechanicsWeight: centers of gravity and the tightrope-walker
Physics & MechanicsMotion and weight: natural versus accidental gravity
Physics & MechanicsMotion of suspended weights: arcs, compound motion, impetus
Physics & MechanicsRecoil, off-centre weight, and the arc of suspended bodies
Physics & MechanicsTorsion, rebound, and a bombarded round fortress
Physics & MechanicsImpact and rebound: colliding bodies and trebuchet throw
Physics & MechanicsRebound of colliding bodies and the power of the natural blow
Physics & MechanicsThe Counter-Lever and the Rebound of Struck Balls
Physics & MechanicsBlows, the Counter-Lever, and the Force of Turbid Water
Physics & MechanicsThe Arrow and the Bowstring; Rebound Angles and the Oblique Body
Physics & MechanicsThe Revolving Arm and an Experiment on the Lines of Motion
Physics & MechanicsFalling Bodies, the Strength of a Cord, and Friction
Physics & MechanicsReflex Motion, the Bounce, and the Angles of Percussion
Physics & MechanicsMotion: how a mover's speed governs the spacing of moved weights
Physics & MechanicsPercussion of falling hammers and the gain of the screw
Physics & MechanicsCrossbows, the shoulder's load, and falling hammers
Physics & MechanicsPercussion, supports, and a loaded beam
Physics & MechanicsCentre of gravity, the windlass lever, and swifter wheels
Physics & MechanicsGravity, impetus, and the descent to the world's centre
Physics & MechanicsThe common centre of gravity, and a press for terracotta 'pastelli'
Painting & PerspectiveRecipes for varnish, glue and cloth-dyeing, with number rules
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