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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2015
Print publication year:
2014
First published in:
1799
Online ISBN:
9781107447233
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447233
Subjects:
History of Science, Engineering, Engineering: General Interest, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, General Science
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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Book description

Officially opened in 1682, the Canal du Midi, designed and built by the engineers Pierre-Paul Riquet and François Andréossy, stretched from Toulouse to the Mediterranean. The present work was written by Andréossy's descendant, Antoine-François Andréossy (1761–1828), a French general and diplomat. A member of the Académie des Sciences, he analyses here the terrain of the south of France to show how and why the canal was built. Notably, the work became known for the author's argument that Riquet had usurped the glory that really belonged to his ancestor. Concluding with original documents from the period of the canal's construction, along with an appendix giving details on the canal's route, the book is reissued here in its first edition of 1800. A second edition appeared in 1804, and a third edition was begun but never completed.

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