Leonardo da Vinci.
The roots of technical drawing.The discoveries which Leonardo da Vinci recorded in his notebooks between 1452 and 1519 are world famous. However, it was the style and accuracy in which he recorded his thoughts which characterised his great understanding and marked a historic step forwards. Da Vinci was the visionary behind modern technical drawing and cartography. Up to the 16th century, topographical maps showed what man believed was present, and not what was really there. While da Vinci’s contemporaries were firmly rooted in the Middle Ages and produced wildly inaccurate maps, da Vinci had already produced accurate cartographic drawings of Tuscany, for example. These maps are the first evidence of modern cartography. |
BIBER and SKED: Maximum data quality has no substitute.The quality of a rating curve often depends on the amount and quality of the available measurements. A distinct stage-discharge relationship can be depicted with relative ease on a rating curve. Hydraulically diversified and more complex correlations are often more difficult to illustrate, and only experts are able to transform such data into a rating curve. The evaluation of all available data, such as cross-sectional information and changes, behaviour of vegetation and civil works above or in the measuring cross section are necessary to translate the measured water level into the accompanying flow as precisely as possible. Likewise, comprehensive knowledge of the flow behaviour in the low, middle and high water ranges is required. Timely data procurement can considerably influence the process of creating a rating curve under certain circumstances.
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