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Francois Blondel : architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution / / Anthony Gerbino



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Autore: Gerbino Anthony Visualizza persona
Titolo: Francois Blondel : architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution / / Anthony Gerbino Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
Disciplina: 720.92
Soggetto topico: Architectural practice - France - History - 17th century
Classicism in architecture - France
Architecture - Mathematics
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: BlondelFrancois <1618-1686.>  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Mathematician, engineer, courtier -- The rebirth of French classicism I : the Académie Royale d'Architecture -- The rebirth of French classicism II : Paris -- Architects and mathematicians -- Architecture versus erudition : the Perrault-Blondel debate revisited -- Architecture and the Encyclopedia : Blondel as reader and collector -- Conclusion : Blondel's Nachleben.
Sommario/riassunto: First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the ""new science"" of the seventeenth century. The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarshi
Altri titoli varianti: Architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution
Titolo autorizzato: Francois Blondel  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-203-71806-2
1-283-88575-1
1-135-69480-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452550503321
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Serie: Classical tradition in architecture.