Historical Development of Hydrology
- 10.01.2019
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Atıl Bulu
Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract
It is not easy to answer the question "When and where the science of hydrology began?". The first civilizations began and developed on the shores of the rivers since the water was so vital for human living and also those areas were suitable for settlement because of their mild climate. The first water structures were for the control of the nature to supply water for the developments, construction of irrigation and drainage channels, dams and dikes. The first water structures were seen on the Nile of the historical Egypt. The ancient Ionian philosophers tried to explain the nature without the help of myths of Gods. The explanation of periodical flooding of Nile was a subject to think about among the ancient philosophers such as Thales, Herodotus, Democritus. Platon was the first philosopher to give explanation of hydrological cycle. Aristoteles has written a book named “Meteorologica”. Almost all the great philosophers and scientists of the ancient times have somehow tried to explain some part the hydrological cycle. These are Leonardo da Vinci, Giovan Fontana, Benedetto Castelli, Pierre Perrault, Edme Marioette, Edmont Halley, Robert Hooke, Henry de Pitot, Antoine Chézy, Pierre Louis Georges Du Buat and John Dalton.
Keywords: Hydrology, History, Philosophers
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