Theater of Machines, Part 2

richer in water, cooler, and healthier. The field well-springs, however, are saltier, heavier, warm, and tasteless, unless an vein were to come from a mountain and break through at the level ground, and the little spring were shaded by trees, which gives it a good taste.

And although I could cite many examples of how the ancient sages imitated nature, how one should seek good, healthy, and well-tasting water in places and ends where there are no flowing springs, indeed how such veins and sources are to be found, it is sufficiently dealt with by Pliny the Elder Plinio and Andrea Palladio Palladio.

Then, because in this time the utilities we have from water are discovered more and more from day to day with all kinds of beautiful arts, we are minded in this time to pursue the same more diligently,