The Circulation of Garden Water Fountains Engineering Knowledge in Europe
The Circulation of Garden Water Fountains Engineering Knowledge in Europe Spreading practical hydraulic knowledge and water fountain design ideas all through Europe was accomplished with the printed documents and illustrated publications of the time. A globally celebrated pioneer in hydraulics in the later part of the 1500's was a French fountain designer, whose name has been lost to history. His know-how in creating gardens and grottoes with integrated and ingenious water fountains began in Italy and with commissions in Brussels, London and Germany. The publication, “The Principles of Moving Forces,” penned towards the end of his life in France, became the fundamental text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Classical antiquity hydraulic discoveries were outlined as well as changes to essential classical antiquity hydraulic discoveries in the publication. Notable among these works were those of Archimedes, the creator of the water screw, a mechanized method of transferring water. Sunlight heating water in a pair of vessels concealed in a room adjacent to an ornamental water fountain was displayed in one illustration. Activating the water feature is heated water which expands and ascends to seal up the water lines.
Pumps, water wheels, water attributes and garden pond concepts are covered in the publication.
Outdoor Garden Fountain Builders Through History
Outdoor Garden Fountain Builders Through History
Multi-talented people, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century typically worked as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one. Leonardo da Vinci as a imaginative genius, inventor and scientific virtuoso exemplified this Renaissance creator. He carefully registered his observations in his now famed notebooks about his research into the forces of nature and the properties and mobility of water. Transforming private villa settings into amazing water showcases complete with symbolic meaning and natural wonder, early Italian fountain engineers paired creativity with hydraulic and horticultural abilities. The brilliance in Tivoli were created by the humanist Pirro Ligorio, who was celebrated for his skill in archeology, engineering and garden design. For the many estates close to Florence, other fountain builders were well versed in humanistic subjects and ancient technical texts, masterminding the phenomenal water marbles, water features and water jokes.
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Although most sculptors were compensated by the temples to decorate the detailed columns and archways with renderings of the gods, as the time period came to a close, it became more prevalent for sculptors to represent common people as well mainly because many of Greeks had begun to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred....
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