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Author : Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Roman Land Surveyors written by Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780715352793
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)
Download or read book The Roman Land Surveyors written by Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. Campbell
Publisher : Roman Society Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Writings of the Roman Land Surveyors written by J. B. Campbell and published by Roman Society Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum , compiled in the 5th century AD, was a collection of Roman surveying manuals, produced by a variety of authors, writing at different times and with very different priorities; authors include Julius Frontius, Aegennius Urbicus, Hyginus, Balbus, Siculus Flaccus, as well as miscellaneous texts. This substantial volume aims to make these sources more accessible by presenting the Latin text with facing English translation, suceeded by a 130 page commentary. The eclectic choice of sources avoids the purely technical texts and includes those which Campbell considers to be most useful for historians, archaeologists and those studying ancient technology. The introduction discusses the text and authors, the origins, development and status of surveying and Roman land division. A series of illustrations, diagrams, a glossary of terms and a large bibliography conclude the volume.
Author : Levente Takács
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789632844756
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Social Status of Roman Land Surveyors written by Levente Takács and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giacinto Libertini
Publisher : Istituto di Studi Atellani
ISBN 13 : 889064866X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Liber Coloniarum - The Book of the Colonies written by Giacinto Libertini and published by Istituto di Studi Atellani. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of ancient Roman land surveyors and the Roman system of property boundaries was carried out in the nineteenth century mainly by German scholars. One of them was Karl Lachmann who published Gromatici Veteres (The Ancient Land Surveyors) [Lachmann 1848], a compilation of texts that address aspects of ancient surveying which are fundamental to Civil Engineering as we know it today. Most of the original texts, as published by Lachmann and with some corrections proposed by Thulin [Thulin 1913], was published together with the English translation by Campbell [Campbell 2000]. A complete re-proposal of Lachmann’s text with the Italian translation was recently proposed by Giacinto Libertini [Libertini 2018]. An important part of this collection of texts, the Liber Coloniarum (The Book of the Colonies), together with a rich cartography illustrating the modern persistences of the ancient agrarian boundaries, was subsequently published by the same author [G. Libertini, Liber Coloniarum - Libro delle Colonie, Istituto di Studi Atellani, Frattamaggiore (Italy), 2018]. In order to allow an understanding of this text for a wider audience, it was necessary to have an English translation, which is offered in this work. The Introduction provides a fascinating description of the ancient Roman surveying and setting of boundary signals. The author has also applied Google Earth® and a special software to many of the Roman settlements in the Lazio and Campania regions to define the property grids (centuriationes and strigationes) that are in Italy from Rome to Nocera Superiore (near Salerno). As with the title of this book, many of the technical descriptions presented here are left in the original Latin. The reader is directed to the Glossary for the meaning of the Latin terms used. Wayne Lorenz, P.E. Wright Paleohydrological Institute Wright Water Engineers, Inc.
Author : M. J. T. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521792975
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome written by M. J. T. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of ancient surveying instruments together with translations of all the ancient sources.
Author : Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789403
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Ancient Perspectives written by Richard J. A. Talbert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : C. Albert White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A History of the Rectangular Survey System written by C. Albert White and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Roman Agrarian History in Its Relation to Roman Public & Civil Law written by Max Weber and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy de La Bédoyère
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349143910
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Gladius written by Guy de La Bédoyère and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan C. Bowen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400567
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic Astronomy written by Alan C. Bowen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
Author : Andrew N. Sherwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134926219
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook written by Andrew N. Sherwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. Among the topics covered are: * energy * basic mechanical devices * agriculture * food processing and diet * mining and metallurgy * construction and hydraulic engineering * household industry * transport and trade * military technology. The sourcebook presents 150 ancient authors and a diverse range of literary genres, such as, the encyclopedic Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius and the agricultural treatise of Varro. Humphrey, Oleson and Sherwood provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Glossaries of technological terminology, indices of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and a recent bibliography make this volume a valuable research and teaching tool.
Author : Tony Perrottet
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307558908
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Pagan Holiday written by Tony Perrottet and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements—Roman numerals, straight roads—but one of their lesser-known contributions was the creation of the tourist industry. The first people in history to enjoy safe and easy travel, Romans embarked on the original Grand Tour, journeying from the lost city of Troy to the Acropolis, from the Colossus at Rhodes to Egypt, for the obligatory Nile cruise to the very edge of the empire. And, as Tony Perrottet discovers, the popularity of this route has only increased with time. Intrigued by the possibility of re-creating the tour, Perrottet, accompanied by his pregnant girlfriend, sets off to discover life as an ancient Roman. The result is this lively blend of fascinating historical anecdotes and hilarious personal encounters, interspersed with irreverent and often eerily prescient quotes from the ancients—a vivid portrait of the Roman Empire in all its complexity and wonder.
Author : James Nelson Carder
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art Historical Problems of a Roman Land Surveying Manuscript, the Codex Arcerianus A, Wolfenbüttel written by James Nelson Carder and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Classical Culture and Society
ISBN 13 : 019063250X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Mosaics of Knowledge written by Andrew M. Riggsby and published by Classical Culture and Society. This book was released on 2019 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Roman world technologies were limited to small, scattered social groups. By examining five technologies: lists, tables, weights and measures, artistic perspective, and mapping, this book shows how the Romans broke up a world we might have imagined them to unite. This study combines detailed readings of a wide variety of evidence (inscriptions, small archeological finds, artworks, literary texts) with theoretical consideration of the social, cognitive, and material contexts for their use to present a unique portrait of Roman computing capabilities, limitations, and habits.
Author : W. A. Taylor
Publisher : Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources
ISBN 13 : 9780771986345
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Crown Lands written by W. A. Taylor and published by Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Lands, Forests, and Water Resources. This book was released on 1981 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Blair
Publisher : Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur
ISBN 13 : 9781800856356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape written by John Blair and published by Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extent to which Anglo-Saxon society was capable of large-scale transformations of the landscape is hotly disputed. This interdisciplinary book - embracing archaeological and historical sources - explores this important period in our landscape history and the extent to which buildings, settlements and field systems were laid out using sophisticated surveying techniques. In particular, recent research has found new and unexpected evidence for the construction of building complexes and settlements on geometrically precise grids, suggesting a revival of the techniques of the Roman land-surveyors (Agrimensores). Two units of measurement appear to have been used: the 'short perch' of 15 feet in central and eastern England, where most cases occur, and the 'long perch' of 18 feet at the small number of examples identified in Wessex. This technically advanced planning is evident during two periods: c.600-800, when it may have been a mostly monastic practice, and c.940-1020, when it appears to have been revived in a monastic context but then spread to a wider range of lay settlements. Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape is a completely new perspective on how villages and other settlement were formed. It combines map and field evidence with manuscript treatises on land-surveying to show that the methods described in the treatises were not just theoretical, but were put into practice. In doing so it reveals a major aspect of previously unrecognised early medieval technology.
