Geometrical objects : architecture and the mathematical sciences 1400-1800 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Proportion and Continuous Variation in Vitruvius's De Architectura -- The Palazzo Del Podestà in Bologna: Precision and Tolerance in a Building all'Antica -- Practical Mathematics in the Drawings of Baldassarre Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger -- Geometric Survey and Urban Design: A Project for the Rome of Paul IV (1555-1559) -- Architecture and Mathematics in Early Modern Religious Orders -- The Master of Painted Architecture: Andrea Pozzo, S.J. and His Treatise on Perspective -- Geometry, Mechanics, and Analysis in Architecture -- Epistemological Obstacles to the Analysis of Structures: Giovanni Bottari's Aversion to a Mathematical Assessment of Saint-Peter's Dome (1743) -- Scientific Concepts of Beauty in Architecture: Vitruvius Meets Descartes, Galileo and Newton -- Breathing Room: Calculating an Architecture of Air -- James 'Athenian' Stuart and the Geometry of Setting Out -- Index.…”
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