The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula Between the 16th and 19th Centuries
This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean. What water devices were found? What were the models for these devices? How were the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Trends in the History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Thirsty but Educated Iberian Peninsula. As a Means of Introduction
- The Water Supply and Sewage Networks in Sixteenth-century Lisbon: Drawing the Renaissance City
- Toledo: The Thirsty City
- Water Supply Management in Seville, 1248-1800
- Water for Madrid: The Problems of Water Supply in a Pre-Industrial Capital
- Thirsting for Efficiency: Technological and Transaction-Cost Explanations for the Municipalisation of Water Supply
- Engineering, Geology and the Water Supply to Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Expertise and Innovation
- Technology of Grandeur: Early Modern Aqueducts in Portugal
- Dams in the Renaissance Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula
- Water Communities on the Northern Slopes of the Guadarrama Mountain Range
- Landscape and Water Heritage in Mountainous Areas: From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from Northern Portugal to Southern Morocco
- The Technical and Social Scope of Irrigation in the Algarve
- The Aesthetical Application of Water in Iberian Gardens
- Aranjuez and Hydraulic Engineering: Public Utility, Leisure Utility
- The Water that Passes through Alcoa & Baça: The Hydraulic System of the Monastery of Alcobaça
- Noras, Norias and Technology-of-Use
- Beyond Stevin and Galileo: Seventeenth-century Hydrostatics in the Jesuit Class of the Sphere
- The Making of a Hydraulics Expert: Estevão Dias Cabral (1734-1811)