Geometrical Objects Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800 /

This volume explores the mathematical character of architectural practice in diverse pre- and early modern contexts. It takes an explicitly interdisciplinary approach, which unites scholarship in early modern architecture with recent work in the history of science, in particular, on the role of pra...

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Otros Autores: Gerbino, Anthony (ed.)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Colección:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 38
Materias:
Architecture.
History.
Architecture / Design.
Architectural History and Theory.
History of Science.
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05998-3
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Proportion and Continuous Variation in Vitruviusâ_Ts De Architectura
  • The Palazzo Del Podestà in Bologna: Precision and Tolerance in a Building allâ_TAntica
  • Practical Mathematics in the Drawings of Baldassarre Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
  • Geometric Survey and Urban Design: A Project for the Rome of Paul IV (1555â_"1559)
  • Architecture and Mathematics in Early Modern Religious Orders
  • The Master of Painted Architecture: Andrea Pozzo, S. J. and His Treatise on Perspective
  • Geometry, Mechanics, and Analysis in Architecture
  • Epistemological Obstacles to the Analysis of Structures: Giovanni Bottariâ_Ts Aversion to a Mathematical Assessment of Saint-Peterâ_Ts Dome (1743)
  • Scientific Concepts of Beauty in Architecture: Vitruvius Meets Descartes,  Galileo and Newton
  • Breathing Room: Calculating an Architecture of Air
  • James â_oAthenianâ__ Stuart and the Geometry of Setting Out
  • Index.

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