Introduction: Scope, Goals and Outcomes of AQUA’s Project

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In the context of the history of science and technology, the article explores the use of tide force in the Tagus estuary, more precisely in the municipality of Seixal, from the tide mills in the early modern period to the project of the hydraulic motor in the nineteenth century. The historical knowledge of practices and devices for the intelligent use of water in Seixal is an invitation to current reflection on the use of clean and renewable energies.
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The Strength of the Tide in the Tagus Estuary

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This investigation deals about one of the most unique constructions in the Aranjuez hydraulic engineering program. The <italic>Azuda</italic>, a waterwheel, was built in the middle of the eighteenth century in an area close to the Renaissance canal of the Embocador. First, a spatial and chronological analysis of its construction process and its typology which combines a wheel and an aqueduct, is carried out. Next, it is contextualized in the cultural tradition of the Mediterranean norias and its functions are clarified as it covered both irrigation and recreation. Finally, it is argued how the cultural landscape of Aranjeuz was enriched with a work of great aesthetic value, with classical and Muslim roots, being reinterpreted under the spirit of the Enlightenment.
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Water and Enlightened Techniques: The <italic>Azuda</italic> (Waterwheel) of Aranjuez (Spain)

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The exploration of the Nabão River in Tomar, Portugal, and its resources was an exclusive right of the Order of Christ, and it was constantly evoked by the religious of this order when there were disputes over the right to build water wheels, mills, and other structures along the river. This singular relation of power over the territory led to also a unique urban occupation in the Portuguese panorama. These interactions of power were documented in the unpublished manuscript of “Bernardo Daniel de Moraes’ Requirement” of the year 1799. The manuscript allows to cross boundaries between the political, economic and social context and the Order of Christ and their impact on the use of the Nabão River. Therefore, with this document as main source for this paper, we seek to demonstrate the relations between industrial activity, the Nabão River and the development of the city of Tomar in the turn to the nineteenth century, having the Order of Christ as a constant and structuring element in this gear.
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The Development of Industrial Activity in Tomar: a Study on the Unpublished Document of Bernardo Daniel de Moraes Requirement

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The gardens of the National Palace of Queluz, built in the eighteenth century, are supplied by a complex branched water supply system. The aim of the current research is to analyse the hydraulic behaviour of the pressurised supply systems, namely the water pathways, the available pressure-head at the fountains and the water consumption at the gardens, by means of computational simulation for different operating scenarios. Results show that the difference of elevation was sufficient to assure the water transport by gravity from the surrounding water sources to the ornamental fountains, cascades and lakes and to provide 8-12 m water jets. Several scenarios are analysed showing that the fountains and cascades water consumption are in the range of 12.4 to 42.2 L/s, available water sources are enough to satisfy these demands for several hours per day and the two existing tanks, Curro and Miradouro, have sufficient capacity to store water to be used in the ornamental fountains and cascades and in the irrigation of the botanical garden and the horticultural area.
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Modelling the Water Supply System of the National Palace of Queluz Gardens

Book Reviews: Michael J. Harrower, <italic>Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology: Ancient Yemen and the American West</italic>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 224 pp

Book Reviews: Mohammed El Faïz, <italic>Os Mestres da Água: História da Hidráulica Árabe,</italic> Olhão: Universidade do Algarve, 2018

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Volume 7 (2021): Issue 1 (December 2021)

Introduction: Scope, Goals and Outcomes of AQUA’s Project

The Strength of the Tide in the Tagus Estuary

Water and Enlightened Techniques: The Azuda (Waterwheel) of Aranjuez (Spain)

The Development of Industrial Activity in Tomar: a Study on the Unpublished Document of Bernardo Daniel de Moraes Requirement

Modelling the Water Supply System of the National Palace of Queluz Gardens

Book Reviews: Michael J. Harrower, Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology: Ancient Yemen and the American West, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 224 pp

Book Reviews: Mohammed El Faïz, Os Mestres da Água: História da Hidráulica Árabe, Olhão: Universidade do Algarve, 2018

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