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To the good-hearted reader.

Favorable dear reader, since in the second part of the Theatri machinarum recently published by me through open press, it was treated regarding water, how the same may be raised, directed, and guided in various ways, which is very useful and serviceable in general for many arts and for setting up all kinds of pleasure: But water is in and of itself especially ordained by GOD the Almighty for the preservation of human life, so that one can dispense with it in almost nothing that man...