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 prac...

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Other Authors: Gerbino, Anthony. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 38
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05998-3
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Proportion and Continuous Variation in Vitruvius’s De Architectura -- The Palazzo Del Podestà in Bologna: Precision and Tolerance in a Building all’Antica -- 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 (1555–1559) -- 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 Bottari’s Aversion to a Mathematical Assessment of Saint-Peter’s Dome (1743) -- Scientific Concepts of Beauty in Architecture: Vitruvius Meets Descartes,  Galileo and Newton -- Breathing Room: Calculating an Architecture of Air -- James “Athenian” Stuart and the Geometry of Setting Out -- Index. 
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