Henry Darcy and His Law

Links

Henry Darcy Main

Not much is on the web about Darcy. Here are a few sites of note.

• The European Geophysical Society's biography on Darcy.
  http://www.mpae.gwdg.de/EGS/egs_info/darcy.htm
• Darcy Biography from the Best in Dijon (in French). (This page makes a couple curious statements.)
  http://perso.club-internet.fr/dijon21/darc.htm
• Visit Darcy's alma mater, l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
  Main page: http://www.enpc.fr/
  History page: http://www.enpc.fr/Comm/PAGES/HISTORIQUE.htm#perronet
• Or, L'Ecole Polytechnique
  Main page: http://www.polytechnique.fr/
  History page: http://www.polytechnique.fr/infoEcole/historique/brevehistoire.html
• Visit Académie des Sciences (The French Academy of Sciences)
  http://www.academie-sciences.fr/
• Visit Ville Dijon: A tourist site http://www.visit.ie/countries/fr/dijon/
  or a commercial site http://www.ifrance.com/dijon/index.htm
  or the official city page http://www.ville-dijon.fr/

Darcy's Law

• Okke Batelaan's list of most influential ground-water papers and books. http://pop.vub.ac.be/~batelaan/bestpaper.html

Other members of the the Corps de Ponts et Chaussées

• Barnabé Brisson (1777-1828)
• Pierre Ossian Bonnet (1819-1892)
• Augustin Louis Cauchy (1789-1857)
• Benoit Paul Emile Clapeyron (1799-1864)
• Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis (1792-1843)
• Arsene Jumes Emile Juvenal Dupuit (1804-1866)
• Augustin Jean Fresnel (1788-1828)
• Pierre Simon Girard (1765-1836)
• Louis Marie Henri Navier (1785-1836)
• Gaspard-Marie Riche de Prony (1755-1839)
• Jules Regnault (1797-1863) (in French)
• Jean Claude Barre de Saint-Venant (1787-1886)
• Pierre Laurent Wantzel (1814-1848)

Engineering History Sites
Links to other interesting sites. Send me your site if you have history or biographies in science and engineering.

• The Institute and Museum of the History of Science has several articles on the early Italian scientists including Castelli, and Torricelli.
• iGEM; The Internet Geotechnical Engineering Magazine: www.ejge.com/iGEM/
  This is a great example of what the WEB can do in engineering and the sciences.
• Mark Cramer's links to History of Sciences is nice: http://www.eng.vt.edu/fluids/msc/hist.htm
• iCivilEngineer; A list of about 70 great Civil Engineers: http://www.icivilengineer.com/Famous_Engineers
• The Histroy of Hydraulics Collection at the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa has source materials used by Rouse and Ince in writing History of Hydraulics, including three books by Darcy. http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/focusareas/history/hydraulics/index.html

Links on French History
These sites provided source material for the Biography in addition to the References.

• Paris Urban Sanitation Before the 20th Century: A History of Invisible Infrastructure
  by Frederique Krupa. This is a must see site!
• Encyclopedia of Revolutions of 1848
  June Days (June 22-26, 1848)
  Investment and the 1848 Revolution
  Provisional Government of the Second French Republic
  France, Financial Crisis and the 1848 Revolutions
  Employment and the Revolution of 1848 in France
• Encyclopaedia Britannica History of France, 1815-1940
• French Ministry of Foreign Affairs history pages

Links on People

• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/index.html
• The Catholic Encyclopedia: http://newadvent.org/cathen/ A good source for biographical information.

Links to Links Relating to Ground Water
If you end up surfing to all the links on these sites, you may want to consider getting a life.

• Groundwater.com: http://www.groundwater.com/links
• Hydrology, Hydraulics and Environment Links http://www.us.net/adept/links.html
• GeoWeb: http://www.pacificnet.net/~gimills/main.html
• Hydrogeologist's Home Page: http://www.thehydrogeologist.com/index.htm
• Environmental Orgainization Web Directory: http://www.webdirectory.com/