Georg Andreas Böckler
Pioneered hydraulic architecture and machine design
Georg Andreas Böckler was a German architect and engineer who wrote Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664) and Theatrum Machinarum Novum (1661). Born in Cronheim, he was an architect in the city of Nuremberg and specialized in hydraulic architecture. Architectura Curiosa Nova was his most important work. It is mainly a book on theory and application of hydrodynamics for fountains, water-jets, garden fountains and well heads with many designs for free-standing fountains. The fourth part includes designs for grottoes and garden pavilions. In 1661 Böckler wrote Theatrum Machinarum Novum, an important work on windmills, pumps and other hydraulic machines. Böckler died in Ansbach. His brother Johann Heinrich Boeckler was a polymath.
Relationship Network
Parent child
- Holger Drachmann Child
Siblings
- Johann Heinrich Boeckler Younger
Artworks by this artist
- Fig. XXII. Hippomylos. 1662
- Fig. X. Chiromylos, frumentarius. 1662
- Fig. CXLIX. Trochlea sextuplex, cum quatuor antliis. 1662
- Fig. CXXXVII. Haustrum, per utres. 1662
- Fig. LIIX. Anemomylos cum fiti-& hydrotechnemate. 1662
- Fig. LXVII. Nitromylos, sive pulveri nitrato parando. 1662
- Fig. LXXV. Elæomylos, sive olearia. 1662
- Fig. XCIX. Antlergon, triplex. 1662
- Fig. XII. Chiromylos. 1662
- Fig. XXXII. Anemomylos. 1662
- Fig. XXXIV. Aconi-&Sitimylos. 1662
- Frontispiece 1662
- Fig. CL. Trochlea. 1662
- Fig. CX. Hydrotechnema, cum quadruplici cochleâ. 1662
- Fig. CXIIX. Antlia quadruplex, in navibus. 1662
- Fig. CXVI. Haustrum duplex, per sphæras. 1662
- Fig. LVI. Sitimylos, cum cochleâ. 1662
- Fig. VII. Chiromylos, Aromaticus. 1662
- Fig. XIX. Hippomylos, feu, jumentaria mola 1662
- Fig. XLIII. Hydromylos, sive aquaria mola. 1662