Giovanni de la Fontana, engineer and magician
Abstract
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".
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