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The archaeology of sanitation in Roman Italy : toilets, sewers, and water systems
\"The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow explores this little-known world of bathrooms and sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation, engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene, and public health. Focusing on the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, and Rome, Koloski-Ostrow's work challenges common perceptions of Romans' social customs, beliefs about health, tolerance for filth in their cities, and attitudes toward privacy. In charting the complex history of sanitary customs from the late republic to the early empire, Koloski-Ostrow reveals the origins of waste removal technologies and their implications for urban health, past and present\"--Provided by publisher.
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Mathematical excursions to the world’s great buildings
From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers on an eye-opening tour of the mathematics behind some of the world's most spectacular buildings. Beautifully illustrated, the book explores the milestones in elementary mathematics that enliven the understanding of these buildings and combines this with an in-depth look at their aesthetics, history, and structure. Whether using trigonometry and vectors to explain why Gothic arches are structurally superior to Roman arches, or showing how simple ruler and compass constructions can produce sophisticated architectural details, Alexander Hahn describes the points at which elementary mathematics and architecture intersect.
Beginning in prehistoric times, Hahn proceeds to guide readers through the Greek, Roman, Islamic, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and modern styles. He explores the unique features of the Pantheon, the Hagia Sophia, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, the Duomo in Florence, Palladio's villas, and Saint Peter's Basilica, as well as the U.S. Capitol Building. Hahn celebrates the forms and structures of architecture made possible by mathematical achievements from Greek geometry, the Hindu-Arabic number system, two- and three-dimensional coordinate geometry, and calculus. Along the way, Hahn introduces groundbreaking architects, including Brunelleschi, Alberti, da Vinci, Bramante, Michelangelo, della Porta, Wren, Gaudí, Saarinen, Utzon, and Gehry.
Rich in detail, this book takes readers on an expedition around the globe, providing a deeper understanding of the mathematical forces at play in the world's most elegant buildings.
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Map of the Roman mining hydraulic system - Las Médulas, León, Spain
This resource is related with the Roman hydraulic system linked to Las Médulas gold mining complex in northwest Iberia. The dataset includes a detailed digital cartography of the hydraulic network, which extends over 1100km. It identifies 41 canals distributed between La Cabrera and El Bierzo regions, (33 and 8, respectively), with 14 canals supplying water to Las Médulas. Additionally, the dataset includes the locations of the Roman mining sites.
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Baia (Bacoli-NA)
Il complesso delle Terme di Baia rappresenta uno dei più grandiosi esempi dell’architettura e dell’ingegneria romana. Baiae è un ricco quartiere residenziale situato a nord di Pozzuoli¹ che, grazie alle sue caratteristiche geomorfologiche, all’intero del settore Nord della Caldera dei Campi Flegrei, vede la presenza di numerose sorgenti idrotermali il cui sfruttamento risale almeno alla metà/fine del III – Inizi II sec. a.C.² A questa ricchezza di acque idrotermali (se ne contano almeno sei) è da segnalare la totale assenza di sorgenti di acque potabili, utili per l’alimentazione umana, in opposizione alla presenza di numerose sorgenti di acque potabili abbondanti nelle
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Wells and Bucket-Chains: Unforeseen Elements of Water Supply in Early Roman London
Excavations by MoLAS at 30 Gresham Street and 12 Arthur Street in the City of London in 2001 have led to a complete reassessment of the provision of Roman London’s water supply. Four massive first- and second-century wells contained remains of two types of mechanical water-lifting machines or bucket-chain systems. The discoveries allowed identification of a similar bucket-chain from the Cheapside Roman baths, found 50 years earlier by Ivor Noël Hume of the Guildhall Museum. Archaeological and engineering analysis has revealed the water-lifting capacity of the machines, which could have supplied a significant proportion of the town’s population with clean water.
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El yacimiento arqueológico de Los Bañales (Uncastillo, Zaragoza) : ensayo de actualización
Los Bañales es una ciudad romana con sustrato indígena ubicada en un área de intensa romanización en el Valle Medio del Ebro, en la Tarraconensis, y que, entre sus muchas peculiaridades, presenta un sistema de abastecimiento y de aprovechamiento hidráulico con acueducto conservado notablemente singular. El estudio que aquí se presenta —que plantea una revisión arqueológica del conjunto— surge como parte de los trabajos preliminares de puesta en valor del yacimiento y de su Plan de Investigación.Los Bañales is a Roman city with indigenous substract, situated in a very intense romanized area in the middle of the Ebro Valley, in Taraconensis province. Between its important singularities, it also presents a supply and hydric use system with a very singular thermae and aqueduct system. This study —that tryes to do a review of the archeological site— comes out as part of a previous and current research-work, related to the rehabilitation of the archaeological site and with its current Researching Plan.
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En torno a la red romana de abastecimiento de agua a Toledo: excavaciones en los terrenos de la Academia Militar de Infantería
Las excavaciones arqueológicas llevadas a cabo en torno a los restos del acueducto que atraviesa los terrenos del campo de maniobras de la Academia Militar de Infantería de Toledo han permitido conocer con detalle la traza de uno de los sistemas hidráulicos que abastecieron a la ciudad romana. El estudio de esta obra se centró además en definir pormenorizadamente su forma constructiva y características técnicas--pendiente y volúmenes portables-, lo que permite diferenciar netamente a este acueducto del procedente de la presa de la Alcantarilla, también vinculado con el sistema de abastecimiento a la antigua Toletum. Queda así patente que nos hallamos ante dos conducciones diferentes, que deben unirse, no obstante, en las cercanías de la ciudad. Dentro del recorrido de la conducción excavada se construyó la torre hoy conocida como el Horno de Vidrio, un elemento singular por sus características dentro de la ingeniería hidráulica romana. La situación de esta estructura facilitaba al acueducto un trazado menos abrupto hacia Toledo, a la vez que permitía la pérdida de carga en un canal de pendiente excesiva.
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Livestock for Sale
The civitas Batavorum was a settlement on the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire, and it is now the site of numerous archaeological excavations. This book offers the most up-to-date look yet at what has been discovered, using the newest archaeological techniques, about the town and its economy, its military importance, and the religious and domestic buildings it held. It will be essential reading for anyone studying the economy of the Roman provincial countryside or the details of food supply for the Roman army and town.
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God’s laboratory
Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts' intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God's Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race and history in the formation of Andean families.
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Architecture, Engineering and Building Science: The Contemporary Relevance of Vitruvius’s De Architectura
Conferences worldwide focus on a range of disciplines relating to the construction of the built environment. They tend to emphasize either the art or the science of building, the former focusing on architectural theory and design while the latter targets a range of topics from civil and/or building engineering to building physics. Vitruvius’s De Architectura Libri Decem is a seminal treatise more than two millennia old which addresses these themes in a holistic manner. This text remains valid today for students and professionals engaged in architecture and building engineering. Translated as Ten Books on Architecture, it not only presents an overall view of the disciplines of town planning, architecture and civil engineering, along with the qualifications required to practice them, but also addresses building materials, civil-engineering structures and the science influencing buildings. Although grounded in the practice and technology of Ancient Rome, the principles put forward in this treatise are still valid nowadays for effective, sustainable architectural-engineering design based on rigorous education and good knowledge of building materials and construction. Vitruvius’s definition of architecture—the one still customarily used—is an inclusive philosophical statement on the essence of building for humanity to house humanity. It recalls the symbiotic relation between architecture and building engineering that is often forgotten in the contemporary emphasis on specialization.
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