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'''Fausto Veranzio'''<ref>Alfred Day Rathbone, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor ''He's in the paratroops now''], R.M. McBride & Company, 1943, University of California. page 172</ref> (circa 1551 – January 17, 1617) was a polymath and bishop. <ref>Berthold Laufer, ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=&q=Fausto+Veranzio+Venetian#search_anchor The Prehistory of Aviation]'' Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, 1928</ref>

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~~==Life==~~

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~~===Family history===~~

Fausto was born in Sibenik (or Sebenico)

* ''[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wJIIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA63&dq=&lr=&as_brr=4&cd=1#v=snippet&q=Veranzio%20Sebenico&f=false A collection of modern and contemporary voyages & travels]'', Oxford University, 1805

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The tables represent a varied set of projects, inventions and creations of the author. There Veranzio wrote about water and solar energy, the universal clock (Plates 6–7), several types of mills, agricultural machinery, various types of bridge in various materials, machinery for clearing the sea, a dual sedan traveling on mule (Plate 47), special coaches, and ''Homo Volans'' (Plate 38) a forerunner of the parachute. His work included a ''portable boat'' (Plate 39), that is say a boat that, thanks to the same energy as the current may go against the river (Plate 40). It was his idea to use the printing rotary principle (e.g. grinding them printers, Plate 46) in order to alleviate the great difficulty of printers and improve results.

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Despite the extraordinary rarity of this book (because the author published it at his own expense, without a publisher and having to stop printing because of lack of funds),the ''Machinae Novae'' was the work which mainly contributed to Veranzio's popularity around the world. His design pictures were even reprinted a few years later and published in China.

===Veranzio's parachute===

One of the illustrations in ''Machinae Novae'' is a sketch of a parachute dubbed ''Homo Volans'' ("The Flying Man"). Having examined Leonardo da Vinci's rough Sketch of a parachute, Veranzio designed a parachute of his own.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=quCh9tAW1jcC&pg=PA176&dq=Technology+and+Culture,+veranzio&hl=en&ei=VWf7S9KLPIbd-QbUyJDcAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=veranzio&f=false "The Invention of the Parachute"], by Lynn White, Jr. in: ''Technology and Culture'', Vol. 9, No. 3. (1968), pp. 462-467 (463)</ref><ref>Jonathan Bousfield, [http://books.google.com/books?id=UxSnm-mUp40C&pg=PA280&dq=Faust+Vran%C4%8Di%C4%87&hl=cs&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''The Rough Guide to Croatia''], pg. 280, Rough Guides (2003), ISBN 1843530848</ref>

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Paolo Guidotti (about 1590) already attempted to carry out Da Vinci's theories, ending by falling on a house roof and breaking his thigh bone; but while Francis Godwin was writing his flying romance ''The Man in the Moone"'', Fausto Veranzio performed a parachute jumping experiment for real.<ref>

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Francis Trevelyan Miller, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=viUBTKObG4my-Aaik-m2Dw&ct=result&hl=en&id=MdDNAAAAMAAJ&dq=Veranzio+Fausto&q=%22Fausto+Veranzio%22#search_anchor The world in the air: the story of flying in pictures], G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930, pages 101-106</ref>

He is considered the first man to build and test a parachute: in 1617, now over sixty-five years old, he implemented his design and tested the parachute by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice.<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=27&num=100&as_brr=0&id=TM2EAAAAIAAJ&dq=Fausto+Veranzio+italian&q=Fausto+Veranzio#search_anchor ''He's in the paratroops now''], Alfred Day Rathbone, R.M. McBride & Company, 1943, University of California.</ref> This event was documented some 30 years after it happened in a book<ref>The book mentioning Veranzio parachute jump is John Wilkins's ''Mathematical Magic of the Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanical Geometry'', ''Part I: Concerning Mechanical Powers Motion'', and ''Part II, Deadloss or Mechanical Motions'' (London, 1648)</ref> written by John Wilkins, the secretary of the Royal Society in London.

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==Legacy==

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When Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian-British philosopher and mathematician, moving from Berlin to England, began studying mechanical engineering in 1908, he was highly influenced by his reading of Renaissance technical treatises, particularly Veranzio's ''Machinae Novae''.<ref>F. A. Flowers, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=10&id=qGwlAQAAIAAJ&dq=&q=Fausti+Veranzio+Galileo+Leonardo#search_anchor Portraits of Wittgenstein], Volume 2, page 133</ref>

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The 17th century ''Brooklyn Tidal Mill'' in Long Island (NY), one of the most popular and few still standing mills in the [[New York|New York City]] area,<ref name = "ocean mill">Roger H. Charlier and Charles W. Finkl,[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RKbWnCckHcwC&pg=PA38&dq=italian+%22Veranzio%22&hl=en&ei=ZiPsS-zzAofWmQPI4KzkBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=italian%20%22Veranzio%22&f=false Ocean Energy: Tide and tidal power]</ref> was built after the plan of Fausto Veranzio.<ref name = "ocean mill" /><ref>Bernard L. Gordon, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&cd=91&hl=en&id=XYERAAAAYAAJ&dq=Veranzio+Italian&q=Veranzio+#search_anchor Energy from the sea: marine resource readings], Book & Tackle - University of Virginia, 1977, ISBN 0910258074. - p. 119</ref><ref>[http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Long+Island+%28NY%29%2C+was+built+after+the+plan+of+another+Italian%2C+Veranzio%22&btnG=Search&lr=lang_en&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 ISES Congress 2007] ''Nothing New Under the Sun or Every Little Bit Helps Tidal Power: Status & Perspectives'' R.H. Charlier, M.C.P. Chaineux, C.W. Finkl, A.C Thys, Vol. I–V, Springer</ref>

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~~Today, one of the oldest astronomical societies in Croatia bears the name "''Faust Vrančić''", as does a Croatian Navy rescue ship, as well as many schools in Croatia.~~

==Notes==

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* '''No4''' ref: Berthold Laufer, The Prehistory of Aviation Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, 1928.

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:''The above'': Veranzio's parachute ref (does not mention Croatia ???)

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* This is odd: "Fausto was born in "Šibenik", then it's ref ''Today (it's) Šibenik''. Strange duplication maybe it was ~~original~~ Sebenico (Sibenik's old name)

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* This is odd: "Fausto was born in "Šibenik", then it's ref ''Today (it's) Šibenik''. Strange duplication maybe it was originally Sebenico (Sibenik's old name). Creative Wiki edting here.

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