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Document Details : Title: Vitrivius and the conveyance of water Author(s): KESSENER, H. Paul M. Journal: BABESCH Volume: 76 Date: 2001 Pages: 139-158 DOI: 10.2143/BAB.76.0.83 Abstract : Vitrivius' treatise on water supply and aqueducts (De Architectura Libri Decem, Book VIII, chapter 6) has often been critcized as not being reliable, especially on the subject of inverted siphons. Numerous comments, by various authors, agree on this point. In this article Vitruvius' chapter on aqueducts and siphons will be discussed again, in view of the physics of gravity driven conveyance systems, leading to a different view. |
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