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Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture - 9789004173453

Un libro in lingua di Nowacki Horst (EDT) Lefevre Wolfgang (EDT) edito da Brill Academic Pub, 2009

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The 14 articles of this collection were offered at the December 2006 Workshop held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. Though they discuss construction of ships and buildings over a wide span of time, from the ancient Mediterranean world of the Hittites, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans to the late Middle Ages, the papers are unified by a common focus on the issue of shape creation, making the collection coherent and useful to a broad range of readers. Individual paper topics include analysis of the use of geometry on the late Roman ships in Mainz, Germany; classical approaches to curvature in Corinthian capitals and amphitheaters; and late medieval vault geometry. Several of the articles detail methodologies for the study of shape creation and building replicas. Appendices are included on technical aspects such as molds and curves and a bibliography of historical metrology. Over 50 color plates supplement the text. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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