FIGURE VII.

The present figure is based on the same instrument that gardeners use (which I would call a cicogna stork, and some call bilancioni large counterbalanced levers) to draw water from wells with little effort to irrigate gardens. Therefore, assuming the pinion B is turned by the wind or another motor, it strikes the toothed wheel, causing the wheel C to turn, which is on the same axle. As it turns, it lifts with six pins the rod attached to the bucket I at the handle K. Because it is pivoted almost at the middle of its cylinder, once it arrives full at the mouth of the well L, it is caught by the hooked iron that is attached inside the mouth of the well L. Being immobile, it causes the bucket, unable to go any higher, to tip over by itself into M-N. Once empty, it returns down, its shaft being hinged at the pivot F above the fork H, with a weight on one side to counterbalance the empty bucket and facilitate the lifting of the water. The rest can be seen clearly.

The Latin text mirrors the description, explaining the operation of a counterbalanced water-lifting machine or "stork" pump used for garden irrigation.

A phantom illustration of a mechanical water-lifting system shows gears driving a vertical lifting mechanism connected to a bucket. Letters correspond to components described in the text, such as the hook, the pivot point, and the discharge point.