The Mastery in Hydraulic Techniques for Water Supply at the Alhambra

García-Pulido, Luis José

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“…As beautiful as it is, it would not exist without water (Figure 14). Situated high on a hill overlooking the city of Granada, it required water to be delivered through a canal known as the Acequia del Sultan that carried water from the Darro River to the Generalife, and from there by an aqueduct bridge (37°10'30"N 3°35'07"W) across a ravine and into the center of the Alhambra [31]. Although easily visible (Figure 15), thousands of tourists each day glance at it with little understanding of its importance [32] (pp.…”

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Roman and Medieval Aqueduct Bridges on the Landscape of Spain: Issues of Construction

Doolittle

2024

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Transporting water from one side of a valley or gorge to the other requires construction of an aqueduct bridge or elevated aqueduct. These features are striking elements on cultural landscapes. Unlike previous research that emphasized architecture or design and relied on documentary sources and published works, this study focuses on details of construction and first-hand observation. Roman and Medieval elevated aqueducts in Spain were subjected to rigorous field examination. Marked variations were found to exist between structures of each age. No two aqueduct bridges are alike indicating the absence of standard designs. Locally available materials were used. Construction seems to have been overseen and carried out by individuals who possessed inconsistent degrees of skill. Roman treatises discussed aqueduct bridges, but not how to build them. Many palaces were clearly designed and built by highly skilled personnel during Medieval times, but more mundane public works projects such as aqueducts appear to have been carried out by less-skilled individuals. These findings have implications regarding the construction of elevated aqueducts by Spaniards in the Americas during the 16th century.

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Roman and Medieval Aqueduct Bridges on the Landscape of Spain: Issues of Construction

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2024

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“…This was a problem that ancient Roman hydraulic engineers had already faced in building tanks of aqueduct water (so-called castelli) that distributed water for Roman baths. It was mastered by Islamic engineers in Granada in the thirteenth century, building a system of underground galleries, waterwheels, and reservoirs to bring water from the river Darro up to the Alhambra and Generalife, 778 metres above sea level (see García-Pulido 2016).…”

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Perspectival Realism

Massimi¹

2022

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What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historically and culturally situated? In Perspectival Realism, Michela Massimi articulates an original answer to this question. The result is a philosophical view that goes under the name of ‘perspectival realism’ and it offers a new lens for thinking about scientific knowledge, realism, and pluralism in science. Perspectival Realism begins with an exploration of how epistemic communities often resort to several models and a plurality of practices in some areas of inquiry, drawing on examples from nuclear physics, climate science, and developmental psychology. Taking this plurality in science as a starting point, Massimi explains the perspectival nature of scientific representation, the role of scientific models as inferential blueprints, and the variety of realism that naturally accompanies such a view. Perspectival realism is realism about phenomena (rather than about theories or unobservable entities). The result of this novel view is a portrait of scientific knowledge as a collaborative inquiry, where the reliability of science is made possible by a plurality of historically and culturally situated scientific perspectives. Along the way, Massimi offers insights into the nature of scientific modelling, scientific knowledge qua modal knowledge, data-to-phenomena inferences, and natural kinds as sortal concepts. Perspectival realism offers a realist view that takes the multicultural roots of science seriously and couples it with cosmopolitan duties about how one ought to think about scientific knowledge and the distribution of benefits gained from scientific advancements.

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“…221-27;Malpica Cuello 2002, pp. 333, 336-37) and Dār al-Wādī (García-Pulido 2016) were built, achieving the occupation and exploitation of the territory surrounding the Alhambra (Figure 2).…”

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“…V Orihuela Uzal 1996Malpica Cuello 2002, pp. 333, 336-37) and D (García-Pulido 2016) were built, achieving the occupation and exploitation of th surrounding the Alhambra (Figure 2). r), that was destroyed by Jayran during the siege of 1014.…”

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The Most Advanced Hydraulic Techniques for Water Supply at the Fortresses in the Last Period of Al-Andalus (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century)

García-Pulido

Martín

2019

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Due to the conflicts that existed among the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, the territories of al-Andalus were protected with defensive architecture that played an influential role on the landscape. The development of these fortresses was necessarily linked to water, either because of the strategic control of a hydraulic resource or because of the need to provide to inaccessible places, as it is often the case of the emplacement of these constructions. The study of their implantation in the territory and the hydraulic elements that they preserve has revealed quite diverse systems of water supply. This paper presents the comprehensive overview that emerged after verifying that many of the existing cisterns, rather than being autonomous and isolated elements, as has often been considered, are strongly related to the organization and development of the fortresses, sometimes located at the end of complex and advanced hydraulic networks, closely linked to the topography of each place. This study is devoted to the water supply systems of some of the most significant fortresses in the last territories of al-Andalus, corresponding to the Nasrid kingdom of Granada (1238–1492).

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The Mastery in Hydraulic Techniques for Water Supply at the Alhambra

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Roman and Medieval Aqueduct Bridges on the Landscape of Spain: Issues of Construction

Roman and Medieval Aqueduct Bridges on the Landscape of Spain: Issues of Construction

Perspectival Realism

The Most Advanced Hydraulic Techniques for Water Supply at the Fortresses in the Last Period of Al-Andalus (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century)

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