Biswas (1970) History of Hydrology

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History of Hydrology


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Asit K. Biswas

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History of Hydrology

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North Holland : Amsterdam and London

Date[edit]

1970

ISBN[edit]

7204 8018 3

Description[edit]

A History of Hydrology from ancient hydrological understanding to end of 19th Century

Includes chapters on:

1. Hydrology Prior to 600 BC

2. The Hellenic Civilisation

3. The Age of Plato and Aristotle

4. The Post-Aristotelian Period

5. The Roman Civilisation

6. The Origin and Rise of the River Nile

7. From 200 to 1500 AD

8. The Sixteenth Century

9. The Seventeenth Century

10. Beginning of Quantitative Hydrology

11. Raingauges in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

12. The Eighteenth Century

13. The Nineteenth Century

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