The paper concerns itself with the first two hundred years of the three hundred years of hydrology celebrated in Paris in September 1974. To have included as well the last hundred years would have involved too much compression and this would have distorted the description of the evolution of the concept of the hydrological cycle that this paper contains.
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J. C. I. Dooge (1974) studied this question.