Karadji's "Exploration for Hidden Water". Textbook of Geosciences from the 11th Century

Nadji, Mehdi

doi:10.1127/zdgg/123/1972/1

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Karadji's "Exploration for Hidden Water". Textbook of Geosciences from the 11th Century

Mehdi Nadji¹

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DISCUSSION OF “Exploration for Hidden Water” by Mohammad Karaji — The Oldest Textbook on Hydrology?— September‐October 1972 Issue

Davis

1973

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DISCUSSION OF “Exploration for Hidden Water” by Mohammad Karaji — The Oldest Textbook on Hydrology?— September‐October 1972 Issue

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1973

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A HISTORICAL JEWELPIECE ‐ DISCOVERY OF THE MILLENNIUM HYDROLOGICAL WORKS OF KARAJI¹

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1980

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Recent discovery of the millennium work of the Persian scholar Karaji marks his work as the oldest existent manuscript on ground water science. The title of the publication translates to “The extraction of hidden water (ground water) to the surface.” Content is startling, revealing that Karaji and other Persian scholars were familiar with present‐day concepts and principles inherent with the hydrological cycle, the classification of soils, the description of aquifers, and the search for ground water. Emphasis in the manuscript centers on the illustration of effective water search techniques, such as the study of the color of rock formations and the examination of roots of phreatophyte types of plants. The manuscript also describes instruments and devices employed in surveying and in the construction of qanats or underground conduits.

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Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) and the principle of the overflowing well

Mather

2006

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In 1783 Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the famous scientist Charles, and his family moved to Full Street in Derby, where renovations to the house included improvements to the water supply. He deepened an old polluted well near the house in the expectation that he would intersect the same water-bearing sand that fed St. Alkmund's Well about 800 m to the north. Good quality water was obtained, which overflowed at the surface. The success of his well depended on higher heads at depth in a zone of groundwater discharge rather than direct hydraulic continuity between sands in his well and those cropping out on higher ground to the west. Despite some claims, Darwin was not the first to state clearly the principle underlying overflowing wells. In Europe this distinction can be claimed by Bernard Palissy, writing some 200 years before Darwin. A hundred years later, Bernardino Ramazzini speculated correctly on the origin of the overflowing wells of Modena. Darwin's main contribution lies in his early application of geology to the solution of a water supply problem.

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Karadji's "Exploration for Hidden Water". Textbook of Geosciences from the 11th Century

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DISCUSSION OF “Exploration for Hidden Water” by Mohammad Karaji — The Oldest Textbook on Hydrology?— September‐October 1972 Issue

DISCUSSION OF “Exploration for Hidden Water” by Mohammad Karaji — The Oldest Textbook on Hydrology?— September‐October 1972 Issue

A HISTORICAL JEWELPIECE ‐ DISCOVERY OF THE MILLENNIUM HYDROLOGICAL WORKS OF KARAJI¹

Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) and the principle of the overflowing well

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DISCUSSION OF “Exploration for Hidden Water” by Mohammad Karaji — The Oldest Textbook on Hydrology?— September‐October 1972 Issue

DISCUSSION OF “Exploration for Hidden Water” by Mohammad Karaji — The Oldest Textbook on Hydrology?— September‐October 1972 Issue

A HISTORICAL JEWELPIECE ‐ DISCOVERY OF THE MILLENNIUM HYDROLOGICAL WORKS OF KARAJI1

Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) and the principle of the overflowing well

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A HISTORICAL JEWELPIECE ‐ DISCOVERY OF THE MILLENNIUM HYDROLOGICAL WORKS OF KARAJI¹