1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965040903321

Autore

Davies Colin <1929->

Titolo

The prefabricated home / / Colin Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, UK, : Reaktion Books, 2005

ISBN

9781861896162

1861896166

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

693.97

Soggetti

Buildings, Prefabricated

Architecture, Domestic

Architecture, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Prefabricated Home; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Histories; 1. An architectural history; 2. A non-architectural history; 3. House of the century: the mobile home; Part II: Theories; 4. The question of authorship; 5. Professionalism and pattern books; 6. Down with the system; Part III: Practices; 7. Ideal homes; 8. Little boxes; 9. The robot and the carpenter; Conclusion; References; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From sash windows and ceramic tiles to barracks and warehouses, industrialized building has thrived since the nineteenth century in Europe and America. Yet architects have neglected this area of practical construction in favor of historical, theoretical, and artistic analyses, resulting in the emergence of an influential building industry with architects on the far margins. Colin Davies explores in The Prefabricated Home how the relationship between architecture and industrialized building has now become an urgent issue for architects. The Prefabricated Home outlines the methods and motives of



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975222003321

Titolo

Evidence and interpretation in studies on early science and medicine : essays in honor of John E. Murdoch / / edited by Edith Dudley Sylla, William R. Newman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-95075-4

9786612950759

90-474-4113-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

Brill ebook titles

Altri autori (Persone)

MurdochJohn Emery <1927-2010.>

SyllaEdith Dudley

NewmanWilliam R. <1955->

Disciplina

509/.02

Soggetti

Science, Medieval

Medicine, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / E. Sylla and W.R. Newman -- Introduction / William R. Newman and Edith Dudley Sylla -- Modes Of Explanation In The Aristotelian Mechanical Problems / Jean De Groot -- Structures Of Argument And Concepts Of Force In The Aristotelian Mechanical Problems / Mark Schiefsky -- The Simple Ontology of Kalām Atomism: An Outline / A.I. Sabra -- The Footprints Of “Experiment” In Early Arabic Optics / Elaheh Kheirandish -- The “Experience-Based Medicine” Of The Thirteenth Century / Michael McVaugh -- The Intellect Naturalized: Roger Bacon On The Existence Of Corporeal Species Within The Intellect / Yael Raizman-Kedar -- Magic And The Physical World In Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism / Steven P. Marrone -- The Debate Over The Nature Of Motion: John Buridan, Nicole Oresme And Albert Of Saxony. With An Edition Of John Buridan’s Quaestiones Super Libros Physicorum, Secundum Ultimam Lecturam, Book III, Q. 7 / Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen -- John Buridan And Critical Realism / Edith Dudley Sylla -- The Significance Of “Chymical Atomism” / William R. Newman -- Conjecture, Probabilism, And Provisional Knowledge In Renaissance



Meteorology / Craig Martin -- Setting Up Copernicus? Astronomy And Natural Philosophy In Giambattista Capuano Da Manfredonia’s Expositio On The Sphere / Michael H. Shank -- Copernicus’s Mereological Vision Of The Universe / André Goddu -- From “Dragonology” To Meteorology: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy And The Beginning Of The Decline Of The Dragon In China / Qiong Zhang -- Baroque Fire (A Note On Early-Modern Angelology) / Anne A. Davenport -- Words, Lines, Diagrams, Images: Towards A History Of Scientific Imagery / Christoph Lüthy and Alexis Smets -- Index / E. Sylla and W.R. Newman.

Sommario/riassunto

The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific writers shows that before the Scientific Revolution - and not only in Europe - there were many and diverse traditions of interpreting the natural world. This book provides a broad range of historical evidence concerning early science, which may be used as a basis for new and more complex historical interpretations. Originally published as Volume XIV, Nos. 1-3 (2009) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine .