Overview
- Deals with the general concepts in stereotomy and its connection with descriptive geometry
- Can be used as a reference book
- Discusses the open problems in this field
Part of the book series: Mathematics and the Built Environment (MABE, volume 4)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Writers and Techniques
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Front Matter
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Constructive Elements
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Discussion
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book deals with the general concepts in stereotomy and its connection with descriptive geometry, the social background of its practitioners and theoreticians, the general methods and tools of this technology, and the specific procedures for the members built in hewn stone, including arches, squinches, stairs and vaults, ending with a chapter discussing the open problems in this field. Thus, it can be used as a reference book in the subject, but it can also read as a compelling narrative on this subject, one of the main branches of pre-industrial technology.
Construction in hewn stone requires the use of geometrical methods and tools to assure that individual stones, either blocks or voussoirs, fit with one another and conform to the general shape of walls, arches or vaults. During the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, such techniques and instruments were developed empirically by masons and architects. Later on, learned mathematicians and engineers introduced refinements in these procedures and this branch of knowledge, known as stereotomy, furnished much material to descriptive geometry, a science born with the French Revolution which provided the foundation for projective geometry.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stereotomy
Book Subtitle: Stone Construction and Geometry in Western Europe 1200–1900
Authors: José Calvo-López
Series Title: Mathematics and the Built Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43218-8
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43217-1Published: 09 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43220-1Published: 10 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43218-8Published: 08 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2512-157X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1561
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 719
Number of Illustrations: 78 b/w illustrations, 272 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences