Geometrical Objects   / ; Gerbino, Anthony, ed. -- Cham :Springer International Publishing :;Imprint: Springer,2014.

xiv, 318 p. :

Introduction -- Proportion and Continuous Variation in Vitruviusâ_Ts De Architectura -- The Palazzo Del Podestà in Bologna: Precision and Tolerance in a Building allâ_TAntica -- 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 (1555â_"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 Bottariâ_Ts Aversion to a Mathematical Assessment of Saint-Peterâ_Ts Dome (1743) -- Scientific Concepts of Beauty in Architecture: Vitruvius Meets Descartes,  Galileo and Newton -- Breathing Room: Calculating an Architecture of Air -- James â_oAthenianâ__ Stuart and the Geometry of Setting Out -- Index.

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