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 notions and sounds produced : a work both usefull profitable and delightfull for all sorts of people / first written in French by Isaak de Caus ... ; and now translated into English by John Leak.
| dc.contributor | Text Creation Partnership, |
| dc.contributor.author | Caus, Isaac de, 1590-1648. |
| dc.contributor.author | Caus, Salomon de, d. 1626. Raisons des forces movvantes avec diverses machine. |
| dc.contributor.author | Leak, John. |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-25 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-25T01:03:23Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-25T01:03:23Z |
| dc.date.created | 1659 |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:A31370 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/A31370 |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 de forces movvantes aues diverses machines," Francfort, 1615. Includes descriptions and illustrations of various musical automata and of a hydraulic barrel-organ. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights | This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal. The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. |
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| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Hydraulic engineering -- Early works to 1800. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fountains -- Early works to 1800. |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Barrel organ, Hydraulic -- Early works to 1800. |
| dc.title | 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 notions and sounds produced : a work both usefull profitable and delightfull for all sorts of people / first written in French by Isaak de Caus ... ; and now translated into English by John Leak. |
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| identifier.stc | Wing C1527 |
| identifier.stc | ESTC R17548 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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