Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis (Frenchified as Joseph Antoine Borgnis) 1781–1863, was an Italian engineer, professor of Applied mathematics and then of Architecture at the University of Pavia. His book Théorie de la mécanique usuelle is considered by historian Donald Cardwell to be one of the great engineering textbooks of the early 19th century.D. Cardwell: The Norton History of Technology, Norton (1995)
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Works
Traité complet de mécanique appliquée aux art, 1818
Théorie de la mécanique usuelle, ou Introduction à l'étude de la mécanique appliquée aux arts, 1821. Traité élémentaire de construction appliquée à l'architecture civile, 1823; 1838. Dictionnaire de mécanique appliquée aux arts, 1823. Elementi di statica architettonica, 1842.
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