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xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm. |
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Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 38.
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"This volume originated as a conference held at the Museum of the History of Science and at Worcester College, Oxford, on 19-20 March 2007" -- Page v. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Anthony Gerbino -- Part I. Foundations : Proportion and continuous variation in Vitruvius's De Architectura / Bernard Cache -- Part II. Mathematics and material culture in Italian Renaissance architecture : The Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna: precision and tolerance in a building all'Antica / Francesco Benelli -- Practical mathematics in the drawings of Baldassarre Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Yonger / Ann C. Huppert -- Geometric survey and urban design: a project for the Rome of Paul IV (1555-1559) / David Friedman -- Part III. The Baroque institutional context : Architecture and mathematics in early modern religious orders / Susan Klaiber -- The master of painted architecture: Andrea Pozzo, S. J. and his treatise on perspective / Kirsti Andersen -- Part IV. Narratives for the birth of structural mechanics : Geometry, mechanics, and analysis in architecture / Jacques Heyman -- Epistemological obstacles to the analysis of structures: Giovanni Bottari's aversion to a mathematical assessment of Saint-Peter's Dome (1743) / Pascal Dubourg Glatigny -- A scientific concept of beauty in architecture: Vitruvius meets Descartes, Galileo, and Newton / Filippo Camerota -- Part V. Architecture and mathematical practice in the Enlightenment : Breathing room: calculating an architecture of air / Jeanne Kisacky -- James "Athenian" Stuart and the geometry of setting out / David Yeomans, Jason M. Kelly, and Frank Salmon. |
| Summary |
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 practice in the scientific revolution. As a contribution to architectural history, the volume contextualizes design and construction in terms of contemporary mathematical knowledge, attendant forms of mathematical practice, and relevant social distinctions between the mathematical professions. As a contribution to the history of science, the volume presents a series of micro-historical studies that highlight issues of process, materiality, and knowledge production in specific, situated, practical contexts. Our approach sees the designer's studio, the stone-yard, the drawing floor, and construction site not merely as places where the architectural object takes shape, but where mathematical knowledge itself is deployed, exchanged, and amplified among various participants in the building process. |
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Architecture -- Mathematics -- History.
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Architecture, Renaissance -- Italian influences.
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Structural analysis (Engineering)
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| Alternate Author |
Gerbino, Anthony, editor.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
10.1007/978-3-319-05998-3 doi |
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