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 “ On this stone I will build my church, and the gates of the underworld will not prevail against it." In the ancient texts it is relevant the thought that by placing the monsters above the roofs of the churches, they would remain outside the sacred places. This is one of the many stories that are found doing a research on why the doccioni with monster faces were made “ Other sources attribute the use of gons to a legend related to the life of St. Roman, bishop of Rouen. According to legend, St. Roman managed to subdue a dragon – called Gargouille, “throat” – simply by showing him the cross. The saint tied a rope around the dragon's neck and took him to the city center, where the beast was killed and burned. The monster's head and neck, however, were not consumed by the flames, and so St. Roman decided to place them on one of the walls of the cathedral as a warning: evil is lurking, and can only be conquered with the cross. Obviously it's just a legend. by  https://it....

 References have been made to water leaks from pipes, with references to some calculation methodologies, a brief description of water leaks from canals will follow, description of 1939. A) For infiltration. With walls in the ground depending on the more or less permeability, a layer of 0.06:0.01m is lost every 24 pre on the entire surface of the channel. B) By evaporation. In temperate climates it evaporates on average every 24 hours a layer of 0.003:0.007 m throughout the year, and 0.008:0.020 m during the summer; in large basins evaporation is reduced to about half. L’ingegnere costruttore meccanico, Ulrico Hoepli, Milano, 1939

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Virginia Recanati, engineer since 2009, cultural heritage manager since 2018. Expert in technical management of the integrated water service, with more than twenty-three years of experience in the sector. She studies ancient and modern hydraulics and systems of supply, distribution and "care" of the water resource. The purpose of this blog is an exchange of information and curiosities that I wish to take care of as a scholar of ancient hydraulics with the sole purpose of disseminating the knowledge (ambitious desire) of ancient hydraulics. This site is meant to be the English language site of my blog: https://blogidraulicaantica.org