{"id":65758,"date":"2019-08-07T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65758"},"modified":"2019-08-07T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:10:34","slug":"did-escher-know-fludd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65758","title":{"rendered":"Did Escher know Fludd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; I was looking for Ramon Llull&#8217;s wheels of knowledge, and found Robert Fludd instead ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I am wondering whether <strong>MC Escher<\/strong>, whose <em>Waterfall <\/em>dates to 1961, knew of the work of <strong>Robert Fludd<\/strong>, and his <em>water screw<\/em> perpetual motion machine, which was invented in 1618, though the image below dates from 1660 &#8212; the year in which <strong>King Charles II<\/strong> was recognized and the and the tyrranous Interregnum under the vicious <strong>Oliver Cromwell<\/strong> finally laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MC Escher, Waterfall:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Escher_Waterfall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65759\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Robert Fludd, Water Screw:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/waterscrewperpetualmotion-fludd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/waterscrewperpetualmotion-fludd.png 428w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/waterscrewperpetualmotion-fludd-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>DoubleQuote!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/unittwentyfour.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/31\/robert-fludd-perpetual-motion-machine\/\">image of <strong>Fludd<\/strong>&#8216;s water screw is accompanied by this note<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Robert Fludd\u2019s 1618 \u201cwater screw\u201d perpetual motion machine from a 1660 wood engraving. This device is widely credited as the first recorded attempt to describe such a device in order to produce useful work, that of driving millstones. Although the machine would not work, the idea was that water from the top tank turns a water wheel (bottom-left), which drives a complicated series of gears and shafts that ultimately rotate the Archimedes\u2019 screw (bottom-center to top-right) to pump water to refill the tank. The rotary motion of the water wheel also drives two grinding wheels (bottom-right) and is shown as providing sufficient excess water to lubricate them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, I wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; I was looking for Ramon Llull&#8217;s wheels of knowledge, and found Robert Fludd instead ] . I am wondering whether MC Escher, whose Waterfall dates to 1961, knew of the work of Robert Fludd, and his water screw perpetual motion machine, which was invented in 1618, though the image below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,385,526,627,294,51,840,1864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-history","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-historiography","category-history","category-paradox","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65765,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65758\/revisions\/65765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}