Geometrical Objects Architecture and the Mathematical Sciences 1400-1800 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gerbino, Anthony (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 38
• Subjects: Architecture.; History.; Architecture / Design.; Architectural History and Theory.; History of Science.; History, general.

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...