Water-lifting Tool by Camillo Agrippa
Water-lifting Tool by Camillo Agrippa Though the mechanism developed by Agrippa for raising water gained the admiration of Andrea Bacci in 1588, it appeared to fade not very long thereafter. It may possibly have turned out to be obsolete when the Villa Medici was able to get water from the Acqua Felice, the early contemporary conduit, in 1592. The more likely reason is that the system was deserted once Franceso di Medici, Ferdinando’s brotherpassed away in 1588, leading him to give up his role as cardinal and go back to Florence where he took the throne as the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
It could go against gravity to raise water to Renaissance landscapes, nourishing them in a way other late sixteenth century models such as scenographic water presentations, musical water fountains and giochi d’acqua or water caprices, were not.
Original Water Supply Techniques in Rome
Original Water Supply Techniques in Rome Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct assembled in Rome, started out providing the many people living in the hills with water in 273 BC, although they had relied on natural springs up till then. If people residing at higher elevations did not have access to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to count on the remaining existing technologies of the day, cisterns that gathered rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that drew the water from under ground. From the early sixteenth century, water was routed to Pincian Hill by using the subterranean channel of Acqua Vergine. As originally constructed, the aqueduct was provided along the length of its channel with pozzi (manholes) constructed at regular intervals. Whilst these manholes were developed to make it easier to manage the aqueduct, it was also possible to use buckets to pull water from the channel, which was carried out by Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi from the time he purchased the property in 1543 to his passing in 1552. Apparently, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t good enough to satisfy his needs. By using an orifice to the aqueduct that flowed under his property, he was in a position to fulfill his water desires.
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