Re: Heated floors and hypocausts and aqueducts
Peggy
From: "Pamela Tiger" <mercyn@...>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:27:58 -0400
[Now, I won't call you LAZY for not looking them up yourself, sometimes
people need to get a handle on learning on their own. ;) ]
Hmmmmmmmmm, first time, I think was reading historical fiction. _The
Crystal Cave_ by Mary Stewart, one of my favorite retellings of the
Merlin myth. I've always been fascinated with the idea of sophisticated
Roman Villas replaced by crude, cold, damp, uncomfortable castles. I
should be fair, there was quite a climate change in that period...
Peggy
A space under the floor of an ancient Roman building where heat from a
furnace was accumulated to heat a room or a bath.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin hypocaustum, from Greek hupokauston, from hupokaiein, to light a
fire beneath : hupo-, hypo- + kaiein, to burn.
aqueduct
(there are some beautiful Roman ones in France)
NOUN:
1a. A pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source,
usually by gravity. b. A bridgelike structure supporting a conduit or
canal passing over a river or low ground. 2. Anatomy A channel or
passage in an organ or a body part, especially such a channel for
conveying fluid.
ETYMOLOGY
Latin aquaeductus : aquae, genitive of aqua, water; see aqua + ductus, a
leading; see duct.
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:27:58 -0400
>Definitions below:
> >Heated floors and
> hypocausts and aqueducts
>
> so.....i read a fair amount of historical fiction cause i like to learn but i also like the "human" aspect of
> fiction....what *are* hypocausts and aqueducts anyway?? and how did you find out?
[Now, I won't call you LAZY for not looking them up yourself, sometimes
people need to get a handle on learning on their own. ;) ]
Hmmmmmmmmm, first time, I think was reading historical fiction. _The
Crystal Cave_ by Mary Stewart, one of my favorite retellings of the
Merlin myth. I've always been fascinated with the idea of sophisticated
Roman Villas replaced by crude, cold, damp, uncomfortable castles. I
should be fair, there was quite a climate change in that period...
> btw, have i made my intro yet here on this group? (CRS...)Welcome!
> pamela
> as above, so below.....blessed be!
Peggy
>hypocaust
A space under the floor of an ancient Roman building where heat from a
furnace was accumulated to heat a room or a bath.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin hypocaustum, from Greek hupokauston, from hupokaiein, to light a
fire beneath : hupo-, hypo- + kaiein, to burn.
aqueduct
(there are some beautiful Roman ones in France)
NOUN:
1a. A pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source,
usually by gravity. b. A bridgelike structure supporting a conduit or
canal passing over a river or low ground. 2. Anatomy A channel or
passage in an organ or a body part, especially such a channel for
conveying fluid.
ETYMOLOGY
Latin aquaeductus : aquae, genitive of aqua, water; see aqua + ductus, a
leading; see duct.