Theater of Machines, Part 2

it must necessarily follow that the water will not touch the port at both
places at an equal height; for it follows by necessity, wherever the water takes its foundation in pouring, that it must have a rounded height in the middle. But both locations to the left and to the right side will be balanced. We wish to show the shape of the instrument Corobatis a leveling instrument here in this first chapter. However, where such water is situated at a high point, it would have its flow more easily. But if it is a swampy location through which the water is to be led, one must

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