Drawing from the book Vitruvius, On Architecture, London, Cambridge (Mass.) 1962
Vitruvius
Water Organ
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Roman architect and engineer, wrote in the year
25 B.C. the book De Architectura, Libri Decem, (On Architecture,
Ten Books). In book X, chapter VIII can be found the
description of this water organ.
See also the complete
English translation
and the complete
Latin text
of Vitruvius, On Architecture, Ten Books.
