Abstract
In paying posthumous homage to Ladislao Reti, Bern Dibner made reference to the articles Reti published in this journal concerning the remarkable manuscript ofJuanelo Turriano preserved in the Madrid National Library.1 This manuscript, the Turriano Codex, owes its vital importance to the fact that it is the earliest known treatise on hydraulic engineering. It is, furthermore, of a high technical standard, to the extent that its author may be fairly described as a rationalist. He bases his arguments, wherever possible, on his own experimental deductions, instead of on tradition; he thus applies to technology that philosophy of science which was born during the Renaissance.
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