On the Motion and Measurement of Water (1828) - Page 12

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS

COUNT

ALESSANDRO AGUCCHI

KNIGHT OF THE IRON CROWN

original: "Cavaliere della Corona Ferrea." This was an order of merit established by Napoleon I in 1805 in the Kingdom of Italy, and later continued by the Austrian Empire. It signifies Agucchi's high social and civic standing.

To you, Sir Knight, who were among the first to encourage me when it occurred to me to include this work by Leonardo in the Collection of Italian authors who treat of the motion of waters, I have decided to dedicate it. And I am certain that this will be a welcome gesture to you, when I consider your profound intelligence in these matters, and the supreme value of a work that was so highly esteemed by a celebrated man who was numbered among your friends.

Giambatista Venturi Giambattista Venturi (1746–1822) was a renowned Italian physicist and historian. He is famous for discovering the "Venturi effect" in hydraulics and was instrumental in bringing Leonardo da Vinci's scientific manuscripts to light after centuries of neglect., in a text published in Paris in 1797 regarding the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, has