Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Water wheel powered automaton turns Island and pool

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A pool with and island at its center is an automaton. This automaton is powered by a water wheel that is hidden beneath garden shrubbery. In the pool may be found two youths blowing tritons, a long-necked bird (often a symbol of homosexuality, a female poring water from a jar into the pool (symbolic of her wasted sexual opportunity), a cherub rides two spouting dolphins in the pool, and a male figure stands upon a shell, pulled by two water horses. We can see how the water wheel turns both the pool and the island in the middle of the pool.

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