Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15458

    A new way of raising water

    Date
    17th century
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    pp2-3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 485mm
    width (page): 375mm
    Subject
    Description
    The title of the work in Italian is 'Nuovo modo da far sollefar laqua da se per un terzo'. The text itself is in German, although interspersed with Italian phrases.

    It has a dedication to 'Herrn Caesi fürsten von S. Angelo Mary, graff von Monticelli'. This might be Federico Cesi (1585-1630), the founder of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome. Signed by Hieronymus Fincigius.

    The drawings are very similar to those of the instruments for the fetching of water in Cl.P/3i, documents 61 and 62.
    Transcription
    Nuovo modo da far sollefar laqua da se per un terzo
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Associated place
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          > Germany
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Italy
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