We are delighted to offer Mark Andrews’s newly published The Science and Engineering of Water: an illustrated Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts on Hydraulics north of the Alps and around the Globe 1400–1800,anextensively illustrated catalogue of books, maps, and drawings on the science and engineering of water from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, utilised by practitioners in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the New World, and East Asia.

A companion to Andrews’s 2022 catalogue on Italian hydraulics (1500–1800)and a valuable complement to his 2023 The Science and Engineering of Materials: A Theatre of Machine Books 1472–1800, the present work draws on hundreds of books and manuscripts from the Andrews Collection of Civil Engineering, presenting a fascinating, chronologically ordered catalogue illuminating not only centuries’ worth of pioneering developments in the field of hydraulics, but also the intellectual networks through which these discoveries were disseminated.

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