A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth CenturyIn A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities, Jaime-Chaim Shulman offers an analysis of three engineering projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s – 1610s. Mainly external conditions, and not technology, affected the improvement achieved in the inhabitants’ wellbeing. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Human Water Consumption in England France and Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | 11 |
Chapter 2 WaterLifting Technology in the GraecoRoman World and Its Development through the Renaissance | 29 |
Chapter 3 Toledo | 99 |
Chapter 4 London | 167 |
Chapter 5 Paris | 233 |
Chapter 6 Conclusions | 285 |
Sources and Bibliography | 307 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century Technology and Change in History |
| Author | Jaime-Chaim Shulman |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2017 |
| ISBN | 9004312420, 9789004312425 |
| Length | 412 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History Nature / Natural Resources Science / Experiments & Projects Science / History Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects Science / Scientific Instruments Social Science / Sociology / General Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Water Supply |
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