Caus

French hydraulics engineer and designer of gardens. He laid out the formal gardens at Heidelberg (described in his Hortus Palatinus …, published (1620) in Frankfurt by De Bry) for Frederick V (1596–1632), Elector Palatine of the Rhine (1610–20) and his consort, Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1596–1662). These extraordinary gardens (only known from the Hortus Palatinus, as they were systematically destroyed during the Thirty Years War) contained ingenious waterworks and fantastic grottoes similar to those illustrated in his Les raisons des forces mouvantes, published (1615) in Frankfurt by Norton and in Paris (1624) by Sevestre and Droüart.

Bibliography

• Colvin (1995)
• Journal of Garden History, i/1 (January–March 1981), 67–104, and i/2 (April–June 1981), 179–202
• Maks (1935)

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