Original edition of this pioneering work in the history of aeronautics. The author presents several technological innovations among which the best known is the one for the construction of a ''ship, which chimneys supported above the air''. All the construction details are described and it is illustrated by the famous plate. Although the vehicle was never tested, the "flying ship" project aroused curiosity throughout Europe. An analysis of it appeared, in 1679, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (academy of which Lana was never a member), while G.W. Leibniz explained it in detail in the Hypothesis physica nova (Mainz 1671) and then treated it in the correspondence entertained with Lana Terzi. Leg 1053; Riccardi I,12.