Water Engineering in Ancient Civilizations: 5000 years of History

Water Engineering in Ancient Civilizations
5000 years of History
Author: Pierre Louis Viollet / Forrest M. Holly Jr. (Translator)
Year: 2007
Publisher: IAHR
ISBN: 978-90-78046-05-9
Price: €68.00, IAHR members: €61.00
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An engineer’s perspective on the history of water technology and it’s impact on the development of civilisation.

2nd ed. and translation into English of the French book “L’Hydraulique dans les Civilisations Anciennes”

Table of contents:

Preface by Georges Tate
Introduction

Part I
4,000 years of hydraulic development in the East
From the era of the early cultivators to the conquests of Alexander the Great
Chapter 1. Hydraulics and the birth of civilization
Chapter 2. From Mesopotamia to the Syrian shore: the land of water pioneers
Chapter 3. Ancient Egypt and the Arabia Felix (in modern Yemen), the rhythm of the flood seasons
Chapter 4. The maritime civilizations of the Aegean Sea: urban and agricultural hydraulics

Part II
The Empires of the Builders
Chapter 5. Mathematicians and inventors of Alexandria and the Hellenistic world
Chapter 6. Hydraulics in the Roman Empire: driving force of development and symbol of civilization
Chapter 7. Beyond Bibliographic References Rome, the East and the Arab world
Chapter 8. Rivers, canals, and hydraulic technology in China
Chapter 9. The mills of the Middle Ages