The Quest for Pure Water: The History of Water Purification from the Earliest Records to the Twentieth Century |
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I From the Earliest Records Through the Sixteenth Century | 1 |
Seventeenth Century | 9 |
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries | 19 |
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