Le vocabulaire de l'hydrologie et des sciences auxiliaires dans le livre VIII du De Architectura de Vitruve

Abstract

The author, in a previous article has analysed the vocabulary of hydrauhcs. This paper is concerned with the study of the hidrologic as well as the auxiliay sciences terms which appear in the eighth book of De architectura of Vitrube. He studies the words used to designate the soil texture, its chemical constituents, and especially these relative to the hidrology, in order to enhance the global idea the ancient world had about natural phenomena.