Architecture and geometry in the age of the Baroque /

Architecture and geometry in the age of the Baroque /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Hersey, George L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000]
Subjects:
17th century
Architecture, Baroque > Europe.
Architecture > Europe > History > 17th century.
Architectural design > Mathematics.
Geometry in architecture > Europe.
Geometry in architecture.
Architectural design.
Architecture.
History.
Architecture, Baroque.
Europe.
Retention:Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Baroque Architecture And Baroque Geometry
  • Effable Shapes
  • Square-Based Proportion
  • Effable Number Sequences
  • The Golden Section Sequence
  • The Fibonacci Sequence
  • Heavenly Fabrics
  • 2. Frozen Music
  • Modular Music
  • Planetary Music
  • Angel Music
  • Architectural Acoustics
  • Sounding Boxes for Preachers
  • Blondel: The Attic Bass
  • Consonance and Dissonance
  • Spatial Triads
  • The Music of Bernini's Baldacchino
  • 3. The Light Of Unseen Worlds
  • Number, Light, and Music
  • Projecting Images
  • The Eye
  • Lenses and Reflectors
  • Microscopes, Telescopes, and Magic Lanterns
  • Optical Domes and Lanterns
  • St. Peter's
  • The Invalides
  • St. Paul's
  • The Paris Panthéon
  • Armillary Spheres and Orreries
  • Boullé's Newton Tomb
  • St. Bride's, Fleet Street
  • 4. Cubices Rationes
  • Engendering Geometry
  • "Congruence" or Tilling
  • The Cube and Its Progeny
  • Pregnant Platonic Solids
  • Rhombic and Archimedean Solids
  • 5. Symmetries
  • What Is Symmetry? What Has Symmetry Been? Reflective Symmetry
  • Translatory Symmetry
  • Glide Symmetry
  • Wallpaper Symmetry
  • Further Advances of the Nine-Square Lattice
  • Spiral Symmetries
  • 6. Stretched Circles And Squeezed Spheres
  • The Beauties of Distortion
  • Ovals, Ellipses, Parabolas, and Hyperbolas
  • Borromini
  • St. Peter's Colonnade
  • Blondel's Parabolic and Hyperbolic Openings
  • Squeezed Spheres
  • Packed Paraboloids
  • 7. Projection
  • Projective Geometry
  • Descartes's Lattice
  • The Costruzione Legittima
  • Girard Desargues's Perspective
  • Desargues's Geometry
  • Shadow Projection
  • Projection in Military Architecture
  • Projection and Spiral Stairs
  • 8. Epicycles
  • Epicycles (And Epicycloids)
  • Epicyclic Architecture
  • Eccentric Epicycles
  • Elliptical Epicycles
  • Broken Symmetry
  • 9. Unforgotten Lore
  • Geometry In The Twentieth Century
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Le Corbusier
  • The Modulor Man
  • The Other Fathers of the Modulor Man
  • Modulor Lattices
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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