How Technical Designs of Fountains Spread

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How Technical Designs of Fountains Spread Contributing to the development of scientific technology were the published papers and illustrated publications of the time. They were also the primary method of transferring practical hydraulic ideas and fountain design ideas throughout Europe. In the later part of the 1500's, a French water feature architect (whose name has been lost) was the globally distinguished hydraulics pioneer. By creating gardens and grottoes with incorporated and ingenious water features, he started off his profession in Italy by earning Royal mandates in Brussels, London and Germany. In France, towards the closure of his life, he penned “The Principle of Moving Forces”, a publication which turned into the primary text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Explaining modern hydraulic technologies, the publication furthermore modified critical hydraulic breakthroughs of classical antiquity. Archimedes, the creator of the water screw, had his work featured and these integrated a mechanized means to move water. Sunlight warmed the liquid in two concealed containers adjacent to the beautiful water feature were displayed in an illustration. Actuating the fountain is heated water that expands and ascends to seal up the conduits. Yard ponds as well as pumps, water wheels, and water feature styles are incorporated in the book.

From Where Did Water Features Emerge?

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Himself a learned man, Pope Nicholas V headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of hundreds of ancient texts from their original Greek into Latin. He undertook the embellishment of Rome to turn it into the model seat of the Christian world. At the bidding of the Pope, the Aqua Vergine, a damaged aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into Rome from eight miles away, was renovated starting in 1453. A mostra, a monumental celebratory fountain built 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 once occupied by a wall fountain commissioned by the Pope and constructed by the architect Leon Battista Alberti. The Trevi Fountain as well as the renowned baroque fountains found in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the altered aqueduct he had rebuilt.