Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0226327841 ISBN 13: 9780226327846
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Verlag: University of Chicago Press 2003-02-14, Chicago, Ill. |London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0226327841 ISBN 13: 9780226327846
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Verlag: Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0226327841 ISBN 13: 9780226327846
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Paperback. Zustand: Gut. 273 p.: Ill., Notes. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar, lediglich der Buchrücken ist lichtbedingt leicht ausgeblichen / A good and clean copy, only the spine is slightly faded due to light. - CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION Baroque Architecture and Baroque Geometry; Effable Shapes; Square-Based Proportion; Ef- fable Number Sequencé: 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 Bernings Baldacchijno 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; Boullée's Newton Tomb; St. Bride's, Fleet Street 4 CUBICES RATIONES Engendering Geometry; "Congruence" or Tiling; The Cube and Its Progeny; Pregnant Platonic Solids-; Rhombic and Archimedean Solids 5 SYMMETRIES What Is Symmetry? What Has Symmetry Been? Reflective Symmetry; Tra'nslatory Symmetry; Glide Symmetry; Wallpaper Symmetry; Further Adventures 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 Parab- | oloids 7 PROJECTION Projective Geometry; Descartes's Lattice; The Costruzione Legittima; Girard Desargues's Per- spective; 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. ISBN 9780226327846 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 675.