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DOBRZENSKY, Jacobus Joannes Wenceslaus. Noua, et amaenior de admirando fontium genio (ex abditis naturae claustris, in orbis lucem emanante) philosophia. Ferrara: Alfonso & Giovanni Battista de Marestis, 1657. 2° (321 x 215mm). Additional engraved title and 55 engravings in the text of various fountains and water-clocks, with the final colophon leaf. (Lightly browned throughout). 18th-century boards (rebacked with roan).
THE RARE FIRST EDITION (a second appeared at Ferrara two years later). Jacob Dobrzensky von Schwarzbruck was a Bohemian doctor, physicist and inventor who flourished during the second half of the 17th century. This work describes numerous remarkable mechanical inventions including a device which anticipates Lord Worcester's "water-commanding engine". The first part deals with gravity; the second with pneumatics and hydraulic inventions; and the third with hydrotechnics, perpetual motion, barometers, etc. cf. Wellcome II, 475 describing the second edition.
THE RARE FIRST EDITION (a second appeared at Ferrara two years later). Jacob Dobrzensky von Schwarzbruck was a Bohemian doctor, physicist and inventor who flourished during the second half of the 17th century. This work describes numerous remarkable mechanical inventions including a device which anticipates Lord Worcester's "water-commanding engine". The first part deals with gravity; the second with pneumatics and hydraulic inventions; and the third with hydrotechnics, perpetual motion, barometers, etc. cf. Wellcome II, 475 describing the second edition.