Talk:Domenico Guglielmini

Ineffective in the valley of the Po Suggestion
In John McPhee's article Atchfalaya, in The Control of Nature, he mentions Guglielmini in discussing the failure of the "hold by levees" philosophy that dominated thinking about controlling floods on the Mississippi in the 19th century. "This was the hydraulic and hydrological philosophy not only of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers but also the great seventeenth-century savant Domenico Guglielmini, whose insights, ultimately, were to prove so ineffective in the valley of the Po." It seems as if there must be a story to tell about Guglielmini's work on controlling the Po. --AJim (talk) 19:29, 9 May 2020 (UTC)