Talk:Taccola

Tartar pumps

The Tartar pump described by Taccola.

Among the pumps he described in 1431-1433 in De Ingeneis, Taccola attributed this chain pump design to the Tartars. Phg (talk) 09:22, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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Wiki Education assignment: History of Science

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 8 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Trtwe34, Kelton T Back (article contribs). Peer reviewers: AMCWiki1591.

— Assignment last updated by K8shep (talk) 19:09, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Today I am adding more information to the Work and Style section. Trtwe34 (talk) 17:04, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Dedications and Brunelleschi

I will be adding information regarding who Taccola dedicated "De Ingenis" and "De Machinis" to. I am also providing details on what Taccola discussed with Brunelleschi in their interview. I plan on adding my information regarding the interview as a new section, and will edit portions of the existing article to help with flow. Kelton T Back (talk) 11:33, 10 November 2023 (CT)

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Editing Linear Perspective

At the bottom of the second paragraph under the "Work and Style" section, it's explained that Taccola was unaware of the revolution in linear perspective. This information came from Lawerence Fane's "The Invented World of Mariano Taccola" from 2003, but it did not provide any specific reason as to why Taccola was unaware of the development of linear perspective. In Galluzzi's "The Italian Renaissance of Machines", which came out in 2020, it is discovered that, due to the rivalry between Taccola's native Siena and Florence, the birthplace of linear perspective, Taccola was never exposed to the art style. I will go in and update the information regarding this issue. Kelton T Back (talk) 11:32, 17 November 2023 (CT)

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Student edits

So, I had intended to propose here that we revert this page to this version, before the first of the student edits (which introduced numerous new errors and misunderstandings to the page ("... the Duomo, a cathedral in Florence ..."!). However I find that I have inadvertently already done that (by mistakenly editing an old version, for which I apologise). If there's any objection to this, however slight, I will of course revert my edits; if not, I will in any case recover some of the references lost in the revert.

I'd then like to do some work on this page – add some more independent reliable sources, expand the text, edit for grammar, syntax, neutral encyclopaedic tone and so on. If I were to do so I would change the present muddled reference format to the list-defined system – references defined in the reference section, not in the text – and to hand-written refs (without cite templates), both changes for the sake of clarity and simplicity. I'll probably do that in a day or two if no-one minds, but will of course leave well alone if there's any objection. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:09, 9 June 2026 (UTC)