With contribution by Gordon Higgott. Beautifully and extensively illustrated. 208 pages, 4to, black cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Museum of the History of Science, (2009). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

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Titel

Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practic in England 1500-1750

Verlag

Yale University Press, New Haven

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0300150938

ISBN-13

9780300150933

Einband

hardcover

Zustand

fine

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fine

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The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This stimulating book, which focuses in particular on the scientist, mathematician, and architect Sir Christopher Wren, explores the extent to which this new professional identity was based on expertise in the mathematical arts and sciences.

Featuring drawings, instruments, paintings, and other examples of the material culture of English architecture, the book discusses the role of mathematics in architectural design and building technology. It begins with architectural drawing in the 16th century, moves to large-scale technical drawing under Henry VIII, considers Inigo Jones and his royal buildings and Christopher Wren and the dome of St. Paul’s, and concludes with the architectural education of George III. Interweaving text and visual image, the book investigates the boundaries between art and science in architecture―the most artistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the arts.

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Yale Center for British Art (opens February 2010)

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Anthony Gerbino is a senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. Stephen Johnston is Assistant Keeper at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford.

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