In addition to important works in the fields of architecture and hydraulics, Aleotti wrote several important scientific works.[1] He translated of Hero of Alexandria's Pneumatics (Gli artifitiosi et curiosi moti spiritali), published in Ferrara by Baldini in 1589, to which he added "four theorems" that consisted in the description of mechanical and hydraulic devices. The translation was very popular, being reprinted in 1647 at Bologna and in 1693 at Paris. Aleotti was, along with Biagio Rossetti, the architect who most influenced the urban design and the layout of the territory of Ferrara, with the construction of numerous churches (S. Carlo, Stimmate, ete.), of theaters (Intrepidi, Sala del Palazzo Pubblico), today unfortunately lost, with works of fortifications for the city, and above all, with his activities in the territory of Ferrara, in the cut of Porto Viro, in the regulation of the river Reno, in the Este reclamation and Bentivoglio. His work as a treatise writer, in good measure still unpublished, was founded on the knowledge of a mass of scientific and technical literature, as shown by his private library.