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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern PeriodThe Organ of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli and the Standards of Pneumatic Engineering in the Renaissance

Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period: The Organ of the Villa d’Este in... [The Villa d’Este in Tivoli near Rome was the last building project of Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este and the one that secured him lasting fame. One of its main attractions is the hydraulic organ integrated into a fountain system, called the Fountain of the Organ. This paper points to a source describing the organ’s mechanism that has been ignored until now: Oreste Vannocci Biringucci’s translation of Hero’s Pneumatics, which was commissioned in the course of building pneumatic devices in another famous villa garden, the Medici garden in Pratolino. Hero’s text is followed by a description of the technical apparatus and functioning of Tivoli’s organ, which is published and translated here for the first time. The research is based on two different descriptions of the organ of Tivoli and on a virtual reconstruction of the hydraulic organ built within the scenic reproduction of the legendary Mount Parnassus at the garden of Pratolino. By means of a comparative analysis, it will be shown that the practical experience of Renaissance pneumatic engineers is superior to the knowledge codified in the ancient texts. As a consequence, this work also shows how Renaissance gardens represented the knowledge platform for theoretical and practical knowledge.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern PeriodThe Organ of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli and the Standards of Pneumatic Engineering in the Renaissance

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Editors: Fischer, Hubertus; Remmert, Volker R.; Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim
Kaiser, Simone M.; Valleriani, Matteo
Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period — Jun 4, 2016
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-26340-3
Pages
77 –102
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-26342-7_5
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Abstract

[The Villa d’Este in Tivoli near Rome was the last building project of Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este and the one that secured him lasting fame. One of its main attractions is the hydraulic organ integrated into a fountain system, called the Fountain of the Organ. This paper points to a source describing the organ’s mechanism that has been ignored until now: Oreste Vannocci Biringucci’s translation of Hero’s Pneumatics, which was commissioned in the course of building pneumatic devices in another famous villa garden, the Medici garden in Pratolino. Hero’s text is followed by a description of the technical apparatus and functioning of Tivoli’s organ, which is published and translated here for the first time. The research is based on two different descriptions of the organ of Tivoli and on a virtual reconstruction of the hydraulic organ built within the scenic reproduction of the legendary Mount Parnassus at the garden of Pratolino. By means of a comparative analysis, it will be shown that the practical experience of Renaissance pneumatic engineers is superior to the knowledge codified in the ancient texts. As a consequence, this work also shows how Renaissance gardens represented the knowledge platform for theoretical and practical knowledge.]

Published: Jun 4, 2016

Keywords: Practical Knowledge; Pneumatic Cylinder; Hydraulic Machine; Italian Translation; Cross Axis

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