OUNTAIN. Natures ornaments are the standard 01 beauty; and themore closely art copies her ever varying forms, the higherand purer does it become. A spray of ivy creeping over acornice, a handful of flowers, not imbedded in a stiff massbut allowed to rest loosely in a simple vase, a jet of… … But nature may be assisted by art, so that her handiworkmay exist in places where it would otherwise be absent; andtne ingenuity of the inventor is not at a loss to find a wayof bringing into our parlors the beauties which we admirein the garden. Such indeed is the object of the ornamentallittle…
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![An illustration from Architectura curiosa nova, exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta (1664)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-architecturacuri00bock-128-75.webp)
