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Theatrum machinarum novum
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across scholarly catalogs (UNESCO Index Translationum, Brill, etc.) and Open Library yielded no results for an English translation of Georg Andreas Böckler's 'Theatrum Machinarum Novum' (New Theater of Machines). While the work is a well-known 17th-century engineering treatise originally published in German and Latin, there is no evidence of a published English version.
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Georg Andreas Böckler’s Theatrum Machinarum Novum is a 17th-century manual for those obsessed with the mechanics of power. It moves from the wild dreams of perpetual motion to the cold reality of river law and engineering limits.