An edition of New and Rare Inventions / of Water-Works
(1659)
New and Rare Inventions / of Water-Works
Shewing the Easiest waies / to Raise Water Higher / then the Spring. / By which Invention / The Perpetual Motion is proposed / Many hard Labours performed / And Varieties of Motions and Sounds Produced / A Work both Vsefull Profitable and Delightfull for all / Sorts of People.
by Isaac de Caus
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New and Rare Inventions / of Water-Works: Shewing the Easiest waies / to Raise Water Higher / then the Spring. / By which Invention / The Perpetual Motion is proposed / Many hard Labours performed / And Varieties of Motions and Sounds Produced / A Work both Vsefull Profitable and Delightfull for all / Sorts of People.
1659, Printed by Joseph Moxon: and Sold at his / Shop in Cornhill, at the Signe of Atlas.
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Signatures: 1 l., B-K², L¹ ([E₁] lettered D)
Engraved title within architectural border. Caption and running title: The Theorie of the Conduct of Water.
Translation of Isaac de Caus' "Nouvelle invention de lever l'eau", 1644, the text and plates of which were based on Salomon de Caus' "Les raisons des forces movvantes auec diuerses machines", Francfort, 1615. Includes descriptions and illustrations of various musical automata and of a hydraulic barrel-organ.
Leather binding, stamped with arms of an earl (Coningsby?) with motto: Vestigia nulla retrorsum.
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