Geometrical Objects
Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800
Editors: Gerbino, Anthony (Ed.)
Free Preview- First edited collection specifically concerned with mathematical and architectural practice in the early modern period
- Provides a synthesis of both older and current scholarship, while also setting out an agenda for future research
- Genuinely interdisciplinary in both subject matter and approach
- Draws on original archival and documentary research
- Richly illustrated with photographs and original drawings, many never-before published
- Contributions by eminent scholars from North America and Europe
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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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Introduction
Pages 1-41
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Proportion and Continuous Variation in Vitruvius’s De Architectura
Pages 47-58
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The Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna: Precision and Tolerance in a Building all’Antica
Pages 61-77
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Practical Mathematics in the Drawings of Baldassarre Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
Pages 79-106
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Geometric Survey and Urban Design: A Project for the Rome of Paul IV (1555–1559)
Pages 107-134
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Geometrical Objects
- Book Subtitle
- Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800
- Editors
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- Anthony Gerbino
- Series Title
- Archimedes
- Series Volume
- 38
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-05998-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-05998-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-05997-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-35923-6
- Series ISSN
- 1385-0180
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 318
- Number of Illustrations
- 105 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
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