Architectura Curiosa Nova: Das ist: Neue, Ergötzliche, Sinn- und Kunstreiche, auch nützliche Bau- und Wasser-Kunst, Vorstellend 1. Das Fundament und die Eigenschaft des Wassers ... ; 2. Mancherley lustige Wasserspiel ... ; 3. Allerley zierliche Bronnen, Fonteynen und Wasserkünste: Darinnen zu finden seynd allerhand Conterfeitische Wasserbronnen ..
Architectura Curiosa Nova is a 1670 German treatise on hydraulic architecture and garden water works by Georg Andreas Böckler, held by Heidelberg University Library, written for builders, garden designers and patrons. Its engraved plates show fountains as framed upright views against a sky with clouds, each a different tiered or sculpted design. A designer could draw on their clean profiles, stacked basins and jets of water as models for ornamental fountain forms.
