| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 398 pages, [47] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series |
History of science and medicine library,
1872-0684 ;
v. 11
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History of science and medicine library ; v. 11.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Shape Creation Knowledge in Civil and Naval Architecture / Horst Nowacki -- Antiquity -- On the Use of Design in Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction / Patrice Pomey -- Were the Hittites Able to Build a Replica of an Egyptian Ship According to Their Own Drawings? / Lucien Basch -- Reply to Lucien Basch / Patrice Pomey -- Markings and Pegs: Clues to Geometrical Procedures of Roman Naval Architecture? / Ronald Bockius -- Ancient Greek and Roman Architects' Approach to Curvature -- The Corinthian Capital, Entasis and Amphitheaters / Mark Wilson Jones -- Middle ages -- "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 -- 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 -- Gothic and Renaissance Design Strategies in Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López -- On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry / Jos Tomlow -- Modern era -- The Shipbuilding Text of Michael of Rhodes / David McGee -- Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic and Geometry into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry / Ulrich Alertz -- Pregnant Columns. From Word to Shape / Antonio Becchi -- From One Curve to Another or the Problem of Changing Coordinates in Stereotomic Layouts / Joël Sakarovitch -- The Squinch of Anet / Martina Lenz -- Conclusions -- 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 by Jobst Lessenich. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Naval architecture -- Design and construction -- History.
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Hulls (Naval architecture) -- Design and construction -- History.
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Shape theory (Topology)
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Structural optimization.
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Shipbuilding -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Nowacki, H. (Horst)
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Lefèvre, Wolfgang, 1941-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004173453 (DLC) 2009016176 (OCoLC)313666631 |
| ISBN |
9789047426912 (electronic bk.) |
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9047426916 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004173453 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9004173455 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004173453.i-447 |
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