Le mechaniche dell'illvstriss. sig. Guido Vbaldo de'marchesi del Monte
Le mechaniche, published in Venice in 1581 by Francesco di Franceschi, is a treatise on mechanics by the Italian nobleman Guidobaldo del Monte, edited by Filippo Pigafetta, and aimed at scholars and engineers. Its pictures are precise geometric diagrams of pulleys and lifting machines with lettered points, lines and weights drawn in plain black ink, offering a designer clean schematic motifs of wheels, ropes and suspended loads.
