Impossible Engineering

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi Mukerji Chandra Wydawca: Princeton University Press Data wydania: 2015 ISBN: 9780691166650 Liczba stron: 328 Format: 235 x 235 x 29 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as