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Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / edited by Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefevre
| Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / / edited by Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefevre |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations, plates |
| Disciplina | 623.8/1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NowackiH (Horst)
LefevreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | History of science and medicine library |
| Soggetto topico |
Naval architecture - Design and construction - History
Hulls (Naval architecture) - Design and construction - History Shape theory (Topology) Structural optimization Shipbuilding - History |
| ISBN |
1-282-60172-5
9786612601729 90-474-2691-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Materials / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Colour Plates I–LII / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Chapter One. Shape Creation Knowledge In Civil And Naval Architecture / Horst Nowacki -- Chapter Two. On The Use Of Design In Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction / Patrice Pomey -- Chapter Three. Were The Hittites Able To Build A Replica Of An Egyptian Ship According To Their Own Drawings? / Lucien Basch -- Chapter Four. Markings And Pegs: Clues To Geometrical Procedures Of Roman Naval Architecture? / Ronald Bockius -- Chapter Five. Ancient Greek And Roman Architects’ Approach To Curvature — The Corinthian Capital, Entasis And Amphitheaters / Mark Wilson Jones -- Chapter Six. "To Design" And "To Build" Mediaeval Ships (Fifth To Fifteenth Centuries) — The Application Of Knowledge Held In Common With Civil Architecture, Or In Isolation? / Eric Rieth -- Chapter Seven. Boat And Boat House. The Conceptional Origins Of Clinker Boats And Boat-Shaped Halls Of The Fourth To Eleventh Centuries In Scandinavia / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen -- Chapter Eight. Gothic And Renaissance Design Strategies In Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López -- Chapter Nine. On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry / Jos Tomlow -- Chapter Ten. The Shipbuilding Text Of Michael Of Rhodes / David Mcgee -- Chapter Eleven. Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic And Geometry Into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry / Ulrich Alertz -- Chapter Twelve. Pregnant Columns. From Word To Shape / Antonio Becchi -- Chapter Thirteen. From One Curve To Another Or The Problem Of Changing Coordinates In Stereotomic Layouts / Joël Sakarovitch -- Chapter Fourteen. The Squinch Of Anet / Martina Lenz -- Conclusions / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendices / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre -- Appendix A. From Words To Technical Practices: Moulds And Naval Architecture In The Middle Ages / Eric Rieth -- Appendix B. The Rare Traces Of Constructional Procedures In "Practical Geometries" / Jens Høyrup -- Appendix C. Draughting Curves Used In Ship Design / Jobst Lessenich -- Appendix D. Bibliographical Notes On Historical Metrology / Compiled and Jobst Lessenich -- Index / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824359803321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefevre
| Materials in eighteenth-century science : a historical ontology / / Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefevre |
| Autore | Klein Ursula <1952-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
| Disciplina | 540.9/033 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LefevreWolfgang <1941-> |
| Collana | Transformations |
| Soggetto topico |
Chemistry - History - 18th century
Ontology - History - 18th century Classification of sciences |
| ISBN |
1-282-09730-X
9786612097300 0-262-27726-3 1-4294-6563-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
List of Figures; Introduction; Part I - Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science Contexts and Practices; Introduction to Part I; 1 - Commodities and Natural Objects; 2 - Practices of Studying Materials in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry; 3 - Why Study Classification?; Part II - A World of Pure Chemical Substances; Introduction to Part II; 4 - 1787: A New Nomenclature; 5-The Tableau de la Nomenclature Chimique; 6 - Classifying According to Chemical Composition; 7 - Simple Substances and Paradigmatic Syntheses; 8 - Operations with Pure Chemical Substances
9 - Classification of Pure Chemical Substances before 1787 10 - A Revolutionary Table?; Part III - A Different World: Plant Materials; Introduction to Part III; 11 - Diverse Orders of Plant Materials; 12 - Ultimate Principles of Plants: Plant Analysis prior to 1750; 13 - The Epistemic Elevation of Vegetable Commodities; 14 - The Failure of Lavoisier's Plant Chemistry; 15 - Uncertainties; 16 - A Novel Mode of Classifying Organic Substances and an Ontological Shift around 1830; Conclusion: Multidimensional Objects and Materiality; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812869703321 |
Klein Ursula <1952->
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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