New Curious Architecture

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ARCHITECTURE

NEW AND CURIOUS,

1. The principles of water conveyance,

Hydragogic: the art or science of leading water through pipes and channels, particularly for mechanical use.
and the nature of water, which is to be raised on high by the intervention of air.

2. Various displays of water and leaping

fountains through various types of nozzles or
siphons that are pleasing to behold.
Epistomium: a technical term for a cock, faucet, or nozzle used to control the flow of water in a fountain.

3. A great number of the most pleasant fountains,

and water-conveying machines built at great expense,
to be seen throughout Italy, France, Britain, Germany, etc.

4. Most sumptuous artificial caves,

Specus: often translated as grottoes. These were highly decorated, man-made caverns featuring shell-work, statues, and water effects.
along with many palaces, gardens, and courts of European
Princes; as well as notable monasteries and fortresses.

5. With a supplement of most elegant figures,

to be used for dividing garden greenery
Topiaria: the art of clipping and training trees or shrubs into ornamental shapes.
into various patterns, as well as for segmenting the
paneled ceilings and floors of rooms, and also for
constructing labyrinths.

All things explained through 200 copperplate engravings, mostly drawn from life, for the use of the studious reader and craftsman, and described in the common tongue,
original: "vernaculo idiomate deſcripta." This indicates the work was originally written in German, the author's native language, before being translated into Latin for this edition.

GEORG ANDREAS BÖCKLER,

NUREMBERG, 1664