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DOI	10.5194/hess-24-1907-2020
	Beyond Perrault's experiments: Repeatability; didactics and complexity
	Barontini S.; Settura M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1027-5606
起始页码	1907
结束页码	1926
卷号	24 期号:4
英文摘要	pThe naturalistic and philosophical studies conducted in the second half of the 17th century were crucial both for the birth of modern hydrological science and modern epistemology. Thanks to quantitative observations and to the new experiment-based scientific approach, the Sun was about to be fully recognized as the engine of the hydrological cycle. In this context of great vitality and rapid cultural changes, Pierre Perrault published his classical opus iDe l'origine des fontaines/i (iOn the origin of springs/i) in 1674. The opus presents a discussion on the origin of springs and contains the report of a set of experiments of water flow through a soil column, which may be considered the first of modern hydrology./p pIn assessing the importance of Perrault's opus, we will discuss his epistemological relevance by looking at the novelty of his approach, at the repeatability of the experiments, at the intriguing didactic aspects for the modern teaching of hydrology and at his attitude in facing the complexity of hydrological processes./p pPerrault places himself in the context of a novel experimental epistemology. On the basis of our analyses he seems to be aware that the processes involved in the hydrological cycle and in soil hydrology are hardly reproducible by means of a controlled laboratory model. This circumstance put the modern scientific approach to a severe test at its very beginning. It is suggested that some of Perrault's epistemological and methodological reflections are precursors of the modern epistemology of complexity. Thus even if Perrault's conclusions followed an ancient opinion, his work is not only seminal for hydrology, but also helps to enlighten some features of the scientific revolution of the 17th century./p. © 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry. All rights reserved.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Flow of water; Philosophical aspects; Controlled laboratories; Cultural changes; Didactic aspects; Hydrological cycles; Hydrological process; Scientific revolutions; Soil hydrology; Water flows; Hydrology; complexity; hydrological cycle; methodology; perception; soil column; water flow
来源期刊	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/159436
作者单位	Barontini, S., DICATAM, Università Degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy; Settura, M., FISPPA, Università Degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Barontini S.,Settura M.. Beyond Perrault's experiments: Repeatability; didactics and complexity[J],2020,24(4).
APA	Barontini S.,&Settura M..(2020).Beyond Perrault's experiments: Repeatability; didactics and complexity.Hydrology and Earth System Sciences,24(4).
MLA	Barontini S.,et al."Beyond Perrault's experiments: Repeatability; didactics and complexity".Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24.4(2020).