Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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 & Ba a: The Hydraulic System of the Monastery of Alcoba a.- 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: Estev o Dias Cabral (1734-1811).