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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS
CHAPTER II: HOISTING MACHINES
CHAPTER III: THE ELEMENTS OF MOTION
CHAPTER IV: ENGINES FOR RAISING WATER
CHAPTER V: WATER WHEELS AND WATER MILLS
CHAPTER VI: THE WATER SCREW
CHAPTER VII: THE PUMP OF CTESIBIUS
CHAPTER VIII: THE WATER ORGAN
CHAPTER IX: THE HODOMETER
CHAPTER X: CATAPULTS OR
SCORPIONES
CHAPTER XI:
BALLISTAE
CHAPTER XII: THE STRINGING AND TUNING OF CATAPULTS
CHAPTER XIII: SIEGE MACHINES
CHAPTER XIV: THE TORTOISE
CHAPTER XV: HEGETOR'S TORTOISE
CHAPTER XVI: MEASURES OF DEFENCE
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4. This, however, is not the only apparatus which Ctesibius is said to have thought out, but many more of various kinds are shown by him to produce effects, borrowed from nature, by means of water pressure and compression of the air; as, for example, blackbirds singing by means of waterworks, and “angobatae,” and figures that drink and move, and other things that are found to be pleasing to the eye and the ear.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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