Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
the pre-Socratics, the post-Aristotelian Peripatetics, Vitruvius in ancient Rome, Buridan
and other medieval Schoolmen at the university of Paris, Bartas, Palissy and Gassendi
in the Renaissance, and finally Mariotte, Ray and Van Musschenbroek, at the dawn
of modern science. But all along it was only one of several competing theories. It is
noteworthy that in many instances the rainfall percolation mechanism was advocated
by active persons of a more practical inclination, rather than by philosophers. Also, its
supporters often tended to have spent their formative years in the countryside in more
humid climates with vegetation, and less in denuded arid regions or urban areas, where
ubiquitous puddles and overland flow during rain indicate an almost total absence of
infiltration. For example, Vitruvius, a rain and snow penetration advocate, had been
a military engineer with Caesar's army in Gaul as a young man, before his career in
architecture in Rome; during the Renaissance, Palissy was known mostly as a ceramic
artist and du Bartas as a soldier and a diplomat. Both Perrault and Halley had grown up
in urban environments, while Mariotte and Ray, who were proponents of the Common
Opinion, had spent their youth in more rural settings. All this is consistent with the more
recent findings on the occurrence of the different flow paths in the streamflow generation
processes described in Chapter 11.
REFERENCES
Alfred of Sareshel,
Commentary on the Metheora of Aristotle
, Critical Edition; Introduction, and Notes
by J. K. Otte. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988.
Ambrose, St,
Hexameron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel
, translated by J. J. Savage. New York: Fathers
of the Church, Inc., 1961.
Anandatirtha (Madhvacharya) (1910).
Chandogya Upanisad
(Vol. 3, Part 2 of the Sacred Books of the
Hindus). Allahabad: Panini Office, Bhuvaneswari Asrama, Bahadurganj. (Also New York: AMS
Press, 1974.)
Anonymous (1675). A particular account given by an anonymous French Author in his topic of the
Origin of Fountains, printed 1674 at Paris; to shew that the Rain and Snow-waters are
sufficient to make Fountains and Rivers run perpetually.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.
,
10
, No. 119,
447-450.
Anonymous (1686). (Review of) Traite du mouvement des eaux et des autres corps fluides par feu
Mr. Mariotte, A Paris An 1686, Octavo.
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.
,
16
, No. 181, 119-123.
Aristotle,
Meteorologica
, with an English translation by H. D. P. Lee. London: W. Heinemann, Ltd;
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952.
Aristotle,
On Plants
.In
Minor Works
, with an English translation by W. S. Hett. London:
W. Heinemann, Ltd; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 141-233, 1936.
Basil, St.,
Exegetic Homilies
, translated by A. C. Way,
The Fathers of the Church
,
46
. Washington, DC:
The Catholic University of America Press, 1963.
Beda, Venerabilis,
De Natura Rerum.
In
The Complete Works of Venerable Bede in the Original Latin,
Vol. VI
, ed. J. A. Giles. London: Whittaker and Co., 1843.
Bentley, R. (1693).
A Confutation of Atheism From the Origin and Frame of the World, A Sermon
Preached at St. Mary-le-Bow, Dec. 5, 1692.
London: H. Mortlock.
Brams, J. and Vanhamel, W. (editors) (1989).
Guillaume de Moerbeke: recueil d'etudes a l'occasion du
700e anniversaire de sa mort (1286).
Leuven: University Press.
