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Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau plus hault que sa source auec quelques machines mouantes par le moyen de l'eau et vn discours de la conduite d'ycelle / par Isaac de Caus ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caus, Isaac de, 1590-1648.
- Series:
- Historical Garden Design Online. Sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries ; GDH-68.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fountains--Early works to 1800.
- Fountains.
- Hydraulic engineering--Early works to 1800.
- Hydraulic engineering.
- Machine theory--Early works to 1800.
- Machine theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 p., 26 leaves of plates ) ill. ;
- Contained In:
- Historical Garden Design Online. Sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries
- Other Title:
- Forces mouvantes
- Theorique de la conduite des eaux
- Novvelle invention de lever l'eau plvs havlt
- Place of Publication:
- Imprime à Londre : [s.n.], 1644.
- Notes:
- Based on Solomon de Caus' Les raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines. Francfort, 1615.
- Includes description and illustrations of various musical automata and of a hydraulic barrel-organ.
- Includes head and tailpieces.
- Published by Moxon. cf. Brunet.
- Running title p. 17-32: Forces mouvantes.
- Running title p. 4-16: Theorique de la conduite des eaux.
- Cited in:
- BM (compact edition), v. 5, 658.
- Brunet, v. 1, 1692.
- Harris, E. British architectural books and writers. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994, c1990. p. 460.
- Wing, C 1528.
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