Georg Andreas Böckler

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Georg Andreas Böckler, 1681
Illustration from Georg Andreas Böckler's Theatrum Machinarum Novum showing men operating a water pump to put out a fire (1661, Nuremberg in German; Cologne in Latin in 1662)
Architectura curiosa nova, 1701

Georg Andreas Böckler (c. 1617 – 21 February 1687)[nb 1] was a German architect and engineer who wrote Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664) and Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661).

Biography

Born in

machines. Böckler died in Ansbach. His brother Johann Heinrich Boeckler
was a polymath.

Neue Ergötzliche Sinn-und Kunstreiche auch nützliche Bau-und Wasser-Kunst vorstellend (1701)

Notes

  1. ^ Various sources give a range of years for Böckler of 1644 to 1698 (the latter being the date of a posthumous publication of one of his works), but other sources give a more precise range, with an approximate birth year of 1617 and a death date of 21 February 1687.[1]

References

  1. ISBN 9783817117468
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