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The factor by which a mechanism multiplies the force or torque applied to it, a key concept in early modern physics and engineering.
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Girolamo Cardano
Robert Fludd
Jan Amos Comenius
Isaac Newton
René Descartes
Marin Mersenne
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Isaac Newton
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (ed. Ravaisson-Mollien)
Hero of Alexandria; Baron Carra de Vaux (trans.)
Hero of Alexandria; Baron Carra de Vaux (trans.)
Salomon de Caus
Anthemius of Tralles
Jacob Leupold
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Jacques Besson
Girolamo Cardano
Vitruvius; Cato
Hero of Alexandria; L. Nix; W. Schmidt (eds.)
Leon Battista Alberti
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Vitruvius; Johannes de Laet (ed.)
Guidobaldo del Monte
Guidobaldo del Monte
Roberto Valturio
Isaac Beeckman
Zeising, Heinrich, -1613
Giovanni Battista Benedetti
Domenico Fontana
Zera ben Nathan, of Troki, 1578-
Pseudo-Aristotle; Theophrastus
Buonaiuto Lorini
Galileo Galilei
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Leon Battista Alberti
Girolamo Cardano
Vitruvius; Sextus Julius Frontinus
Vitruvius; Sextus Julius Frontinus
Pappus of Alexandria
Isaac Beeckman
Agostino Ramelli
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Simon Stevin
Aethicus Ister; Macrobius; Solinus
Jacques Besson
Agostino Ramelli
Marin Mersenne
Jacques Besson
Agostino Ramelli
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
Leonardo da Vinci (ed. Ravaisson-Mollien)
Leonardo da Vinci (ed. Ravaisson-Mollien)
Robert Hooke
Agostino Ramelli
Agostino Ramelli
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
Beroalde de Verville, François
Cardano, Girolamo
Pappus of Alexandria; Federico Commandino
Zera ben Nathan, of Troki, 1578-
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne
Hero of Alexandria; Baron Carra de Vaux (trans.)
Cardano, Girolamo
Hero of Alexandria; Wilhelm Schmidt (ed.)
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
Guidobaldo del Monte
Guidobaldo del Monte
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Jacques Besson
Jacob Leupold
Hero of Alexandria; Giovanni Battista Aleotti (trans.)
Isaac Beeckman
Buonaiuto Lorini
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Simon Stevin
Gaspar Schott
Domenico Fontana
Jacob Leupold
Johann Schreck; Wang Zheng
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Zeising, Heinrich, -1613
Zeising, Heinrich, -1613
Jacques Besson
Jacques Besson
Theophrastus; Aristotle
Vitruvius
Vitruvius
Jan Amos Comenius