When and Where Did Water Features Originate?
When and Where Did Water Features Originate? Himself a highly educated man, Pope Nicholas V headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of hundreds of age-old documents from their original Greek into Latin. Embellishing Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the core of his ambitions. In 1453 the Pope instigated the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away.
The historical Roman tradition of marking the entry point of an aqueduct with an magnificent celebratory fountain, also known as a mostra, was restored by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was directed by the Pope to construct a wall fountain where we now see the Trevi Fountain. The aqueduct he had reconditioned included modifications and extensions which eventually enabled it to supply water to the Trevi Fountain as well as the renowned baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona.
The Dispersion of Water Fountain Design Innovation
The Dispersion of Water Fountain Design Innovation Spreading pragmatic hydraulic information and water fountain design ideas all through Europe was accomplished with the written documents and illustrated books of the time. In the later part of the 1500's, a French fountain developer (whose name has been lost) was the internationally renowned hydraulics leader. With Royal mandates in Brussels, London and Germany, he began his work in Italy, acquiring expertise in garden design and grottoes with integrated and imaginative water hydraulics. The publication, “The Principles of Moving Forces,” penned near the end of his lifetime in France, turned into the definitive text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Updating principal hydraulic discoveries of classical antiquity, the book also details modern hydraulic technologies. Dominant among these works were those of Archimedes, the inventor of the water screw, a mechanized means of transferring water. Sunlight heated the liquid in a pair of concealed vessels adjacent to the ornamental water feature were shown in an illustration. Activating the water feature is heated water that expands and rises to close up the water lines. Pumps, water wheels, water features and garden pond concepts are mentioned in the book.
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