Giovanni de la Fontana, engineer and magician

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

(Submitted on 16 Apr 2013)

Giovanni de la Fontana was a man of the Italian Renaissance of the early fifteenth-century. Besides becoming a doctor of medicine, he was an engineer who used his skills to mimic the magicians, creating a sort of "artificial magic".

Comments:	Automata, Early Modern Age Technology, Optics, Artificial magic
Subjects:	History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
Cite as:	arXiv:1304.4588 [physics.hist-ph]
	(or arXiv:1304.4588v1 [physics.hist-ph] for this version)

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