Rotary Reading Desk

In 1588, the Italian Engineer Agostino Ramelli described a novel invention to facilitate the reading of multiple books at once.

A beautiful and ingenious machine, which is very useful and convenient to every person who takes pleasure in study, especially those who are suffering from indisposition or are subject to gout. for with this sort of machine a man can see and read a great quantity of books, without moving his place.

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