Distinguished Figures in Descriptive Geometry and Its Applications for Mechanism Science From the Middle Ages to the 17th Century /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cigola, Michela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 30
• Θέματα: Engineering.; History.; Architecture.; Mathematics.; Mechanical engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.; Architectural History and Theory.; Mathematics in Art and Architecture.; History of Science.

This book consists of chapters that focus specifically on single figures that worked on Descriptive Geometry and also in Mechanisms Sciences and contain biographical notes, a survey of their work and their achievements, together with a modern interpretation of their legacy. Since Vitruvius in ancien...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface, by Marco Ceccarelli
• Introduction, by Michela Cigola
• Gerbert of Aurillac (c. 940-1003), by Carlo Bianchini and Luca J. Senatore
• Francesco Feliciano De Scolari (1470-1542), by Arturo Gallozzi
• Niccolò Tartaglia (c. 1550-1557), by Alfonso Ippolito and Cristiana Bartolomei
• Federico Commandino (1509-1575), by Ornella Zerlenga
• Egnazio Danti (1536-1586), by Mario Centofanti
• Guidobaldo Del Monte (1545-1607), by Barbara Aterini
• Giovan Battista Aleotti (1546-1636), by Fabrizio I. Apollonio
• Giovanni Pomodoro (XVI century), by Stefano Brusaporci
• Jacques Ozanam (1640-1718), by Cristina Càndito.