01643nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200220009110000200011324500770013326000290021030000280023936500640026752011130033165000170144420220404160654.0220329b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9783030384937  cAL  aeng  223a720.151bGERG  aAnthony Gerbino  aGeometrical objectsbArchitecture and the mathematical sciences1400-1800  aNew YorkbSpringerc2020  axiv,318p.bHBc24x16cm.  2Generala6470b₹2396.00c₹d₹2995.00e25%f12-03-2022  aThis 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.  2Architecture