01705nam a22002057a 4500 20220404160654.0 220329b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9783030384937 AL eng 23 720.151 GERG Anthony Gerbino 26447 Geometrical objects Architecture and the mathematical sciences1400-1800 New York Springer 2020 xiv,318p. HB 24x16cm. General 6470 ₹2396.00 ₹ ₹2995.00 25% 12-03-2022 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. Architecture ddc BK 222084 222084 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAT SACPG SACPG 2022-03-12 Biblios Book Point 2396.00 0 720.151 GERG PG023909 2022-08-24 00:00:00 2995.00 2022-03-29 BK