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The perpetual mécanicien: Isaac de Caus as author

The perpetual mécanicien: Isaac de Caus as author The perpetual me ´canicien: Isaac de Caus as author christopher p. heuer In his 1644 book on waterworks, Isaac de Caus decried a particular kind of ***** mechanical movement: The first archival mention of Isaac de Caus involves an automaton. Isaac appears to have designed water-powered machinery that counterfeited singing There have been several men who have tried to discover a motion which they have called (without knowledge) perpetual, or without end, something very ill- birds in Dieppe in 1617. The apparatus was part of ceremonial decorations for considered and poorly understood, insofar as all that has a beginning must have Louis XIII’s visit to Normandy. Later, at Wilton in the 1630s, Isaac apparently an end, and the word perpetual or without end is best applied to God alone … it erected a similar device in the gardens, described by a contemporary as ‘ … [a] is folly and deceit in men to make themselves believe that they can make 7 rare Water-worke … for the singing, and chirping of Birdes’. In the 1640s an perpetual works, seeing that they are mortal themselves, and subject to an end: even more elaborate machine was witnessed at Wilton, this time meant http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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The perpetual me ´canicien: Isaac de Caus as author christopher p. heuer In his 1644 book on waterworks, Isaac de Caus decried a particular kind of ***** mechanical movement: The first archival mention of Isaac de Caus involves an automaton. Isaac appears to have designed water-powered machinery that counterfeited singing There have been several men who have tried to discover a motion which they have called (without knowledge) perpetual, or without end, something very ill- birds in Dieppe in 1617. The apparatus was part of ceremonial decorations for considered and poorly understood, insofar as all that has a beginning must have Louis XIII’s visit to Normandy. Later, at Wilton in the 1630s, Isaac apparently an end, and the word perpetual or without end is best applied to God alone … it erected a similar device in the gardens, described by a contemporary as ‘ … [a] is folly and deceit in men to make themselves believe that they can make 7 rare Water-worke … for the singing, and chirping of Birdes’. In the 1640s an perpetual works, seeing that they are mortal themselves, and subject to an end: even more elaborate machine was witnessed at Wilton, this time meant

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2009

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