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Noua et amaenior de admirando fontium genio (ex abditas naturae claustris, in orbis lucem emanante) philosophia : perenne fluere iussa

Dobrzensky, Jacobus Joannes Wenceslaus, active 1659-1684, Sauvé, Jean, fl. 1657-1691, Maresti, Alfonso de, fl. 1657-1674, Maresti, Giovanni Battista de, fl. 1657-1674 · 1659 · Ferrariae : Apud Alphonsum & Io. Baptistam de Marestis · 54 pictures

A 1659 Latin treatise on hydraulics and fountain engineering, printed at Ferrara by Alfonso and Giovanni Battista de Maresti and credited to Jacobus Dobrzensky with Jean Sauvé, aimed at scholars and engineers of the period. Its engravings show fountain mechanisms as stacked pedestals, columns, spheres and basins, drawn in fine parallel hatching with lettered keys, giving a designer clear, ornamental plumbing diagrams for classical water features.

Hydraulic engineering

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