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Georg Andreas Böckler (c. 1617 – 21 February 1687) was a German
architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
and
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who wrote ''Architectura Curiosa Nova'' (1664) and ''Theatrum Machinarum Novum'' (1661).


Biography

Born in Cronheim, he was an architect in the city of
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and specialized in hydraulic
architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
. ''Architectura Curiosa Nova'' was his most important work. It is mainly a book on theory and application of hydrodynamics for
fountains A fountain, from the Latin "fons" (genitive "fontis"), meaning source or Spring (hydrology), spring, is a decorative reservoir used for discharging water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect. ...
, water-jets, garden fountains and well heads with many designs for free-standing fountains. The fourth part includes designs for grottoes and
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pavilion In architecture, ''pavilion'' has several meanings: * It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia ...
s. In 1661 Böckler wrote ''Theatrum Machinarum Novum'', an important work on
windmills A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some par ...
,
pumps A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action, typically converted from electrical energy into hydraulic energy. Pumps can be classified into three major groups according to the method they ...
and other
hydraulic Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counte ...
machines A machine is a physical system using power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromolecul ...
. Böckler died in
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. His brother Johann Heinrich Boeckler was a polymath.


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A webpage with illustrations of fountains from Architecturea Curiosa Nova, Pars TertiaOnline text of Theatrum machinarum novum
* Books on line on the Architectura website: http://architectura.cesr.univ-tours.fr/Traite/Auteur/Bockler.asp?param=en * http://www.theatra.de/repertorium/ed000028.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Bockler, Georg Andreas Architects from Nuremberg Engineers from Nuremberg 1610s births 1687 deaths