General Index of the most distinguished subjects and machines, according to the Chapters, Pages, and Tables.

		P.	Tab.
Ch. 1.	Dasypodius's referring to Conrad Dasypodius, a 16th-century mathematician discourse on mechanics, pages 1 — 16.
2.	In what manner humans and animals are able to transport certain loads without special machines, and how it is done by humans through carrying	3—16	1
	How it is performed with animals	17—19	2
3.	Of simple implements	20—41	3
	On the lever	22—33	3
	On the line of direction	34—40	4. 5
	On pulley blocks	42—43	5
	On the windlass	44—46	6
	On the wheel and gear	47—50	6
	On the screw	51—54	6
	" " " worm screw original: "ohne Ende", literally "without end"	55—59	7
4.	On roller work, what it is	60—65	8
	Ctesiphon's machine	66—67	8
	How to transport loads on rollers	69—70	9
	How to improve vehicles and roads	72—81	9
	On the improvement of wagons	82—96	10
	A special wagon for loads	96—97	11
	A ditto for building yards	98	11
	A ditto for moving large trees	99	—
	A ditto for watering in gardens	100	—
	Wagon with three wheels, which is said to be advantageous	101. 102	12
	On sledges	104	—
	A so-called dog a type of low cart or sled for heavy transport	106	—
	Perrault's machine with rollers without friction	108. 115	13
	Idem's the same author's other machine	116	14
	Instrument called the hand	117	—
	Idem's third type	118	15
	Idem's fourth type	124	14
5.	Machines with the lever	126	—
	The lifting jack in the Saxon manner	127	16
	Ditto in the French style	132	17
	Ditto other type	134	17
	Machine with levers only	136	18
	" " simple lever, instead of a crane	137	—
	" " the windlass and screw	138	—
	Lever combined with the pulley block	139	—
6.	Machines with the windlass.	140	19
	The mining windlass	144	19
	Wheel windlass	146	—
	Horizontal cross-windlass	149	20
	Earth-winch or earth-windlass
	Description and machines of how the two large stones, each 52 feet long and weighing nearly 800 hundredweight, were moved from Meudon for the covering of one of the frontispieces at the Louvre	151	21
	Machine for how the stone was raised	166	22
	Mr. Perrault's machine for how such a stone can be raised much more safely and without danger of breaking	167	22
	Raising a sunken ship by windlass	170	23
	How to raise a cannon or other load from the water by earth-winches	171	—
	Pulling out strong piles by the windlass	172	—
	Raising a load by means of a ship, water, and rope	179	—
	Description of the so-called camels at Amsterdam, with which laden ships are brought over the Pampus a shallow area near Amsterdam	180	24
	Machine to raise ships and sunken goods from the sea, as used in Genoa	183	—
7.	On cranes and lifting gear, both in construction work and for raising ships, loads, and goods	184	—
	A crane with windlass and turning mechanism	185	25
	" " tripod and windlass	187	—
	" " horizontal cross-windlass	188	26