Did You Know How Mechanical Designs And Styles of Water Fountains Became Known?

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Did You Know How Mechanical Designs And Styles of Water Fountains Became Known? Throughout Europe, the primary means of spreading useful hydraulic understanding and fountain design suggestions were the published pamphlets and illustrated books of the time, which added to the development of scientific development. In the later part of the 1500's, a French water fountain architect (whose name has been lost) was the internationally distinguished hydraulics innovator. With Royal mandates in Brussels, London and Germany, he started his work in Italy, developing knowledge in garden design and grottoes with integrated and ingenious water hydraulics. “The Principles of Moving Forces”, a guide that became the essential book on hydraulic technology and engineering, was authored by him towards the end of his lifetime in France. Explaining contemporary hydraulic systems, the publication furthermore modernized critical hydraulic breakthroughs of classical antiquity. Archimedes, the developer of the water screw, had his work highlighted and these integrated a mechanical means to move water. Sunlight heating up water in two containers hidden in a room next to an ornamental water feature was presented in one illustration. The end result: the water fountain is triggered by the heated liquid expanding and rising up the piping. The book also includes garden ponds, water wheels, water feature designs.

The Source of Modern Outdoor Water Fountains

The Source of Modern Outdoor Water Fountains The translation of hundreds of ancient Greek texts into Latin was commissioned by the learned Pope Nicholas V who ruled the Church in Rome from 1397 until 1455. He undertook the embellishment of Rome to turn it into the model capital of the Christian world. Starting in 1453, the ruined ancient Roman aqueduct known as the Aqua Vergine which had brought fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away, underwent restoration at the behest of the Pope. A mostra, a monumental dedicatory fountain constructed by ancient Romans to mark the point of arrival of an aqueduct, was a tradition which was restored by Nicholas V. The present-day site of the Trevi Fountain was formerly occupied by a wall fountain commissioned by the Pope and built by the architect Leon Battista Alberti. The aqueduct he had reconditioned included modifications and extensions which eventually allowed it to supply water to the Trevi Fountain as well as the renowned baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona.