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ISBN: 0226789403 9780226789408 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago London
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Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time-Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE-to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy's ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor's rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
Cartography --- Geography, Ancient. --- Surveying --- History. --- history, historical, maps, mapmaking, cartography, cartographer, mesopotamia, egypt, greece, rome, italy, africa, fertile crescent, time period, era, europe, millennium, bce, civilization, culture, cultural, antiquity, analysis, ptolemy, world, global, alexandria, mesopotamian, city planning, roman, aqueducts, roads, surveying, essay collection, anthology.
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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The chapter ‘Water Engineering in Ancient Societies’ involves the use of modern hydraulic engineering principles to describe the design, construction and use of ancient World Heritage water-system structures in South America and the Middle East.
Petra --- Nabataean --- water systems --- hydraulic analysis --- CFD --- canals --- reservoirs --- pipelines --- flow stability --- pre-Columbian --- urban Tiwanaku --- Bolivia --- hydraulic/hydrological analysis --- surface canals --- perimeter drainage channel --- moat --- subterranean channels --- societal structure --- Roman --- Pont du Gard --- water engineering --- castellum --- aqueduct --- CFD analysis --- hydraulic design --- critical flow --- Machu Picchu --- Inca --- ancient water engineering --- hydraulics --- central-Andes --- engineered landscapes --- political ecology --- Prehispanic --- resilience --- water security --- wetland management --- Roman aqueducts --- inverted siphons --- static pressure --- pressure surges --- lead pipes --- stone conduits --- air entrapment --- Vitruvius --- Inka --- Tipon --- precolumbian --- flow rates --- fountain --- Peru --- Archaic period --- Caral --- CFD models --- beach ridges --- ENSO events --- landscape change --- site termination
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