Renaissance Bookwheel

The bookwheel is a modern 2018 construction using a 1588 design by Agostino Ramelli. It was manufactured by a team of four RIT students: undergraduate engineering students Matthew Nygren, Ian Kurtz, Reese Salen, and Maher Abdelkawi. The team made two bookwheels. One is housed in the Cary Collection at RIT, the other is in the Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester.