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OverviewThe design, construction and verification of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in architecture and ship geometry have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. Before science-based structural design and analysis were applied in the construction industries, i.e., before 1800, the task of conceiving, documenting and fabricating such shapes constituted the most significant interface between practitioner's knowledge and learned knowledge, above all in geometry. The history of shape development in these two disciplines therefore promises especially valuable insights into the knowledge history of shape creation. This volume is a collection of contributions by outstanding scholars in their fields of study, archaeology, history of architecture and ship design, in classic antiquity, the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The volume presents a comparative knowledge history in these two distinct branches of construction engineering. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Horst Nowacki , Wolfgang Lefèvre , Horst Nowacki , Wolfgang Lefa]vrePublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 11 Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.956kg ISBN: 9789004173453ISBN 10: 9004173455 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 30 June 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Color plate section INTRODUCTION 1. Shape Creation Knowledge in Civil and Naval Architecture, Horst Nowacki ANTIQUITY 2. On the Use of Design in Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction, Patrice Pomey 3. Were the Hittites Able to Build a Replica of an Egyptian Ship According to Their Own Drawings?, Lucien Basch Reply to Lucien Basch by Patrice Pomey 4. Markings and Pegs: Clues to Geometrical Procedures of Roman Naval Architecture?, Ronald Bockius 5. Ancient Greek and Roman Architects’ Approach to Curvature – The Corinthian Capital, Entasis and Amphitheaters, Mark Wilson Jones MIDDLE AGES 6. “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 7. Boat and Boat House. The Conceptional Origins of Clinker Boats and Boat-Shaped Halls of the Fourth –Eleventh Centuries in Scandinavia, Ole Crumlin-Pedersen 8. Gothic and Renaissance Design Strategies in Stonecutting, Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López 9. On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry, Jos Tomlow MODERN ERA 10. The Shipbuilding Text of Michael of Rhodes, David McGee 11. Naval Architecture Digitalized – Introducing Arithmetic and Geometry into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry, Ulrich Alertz 12. Pregnant Columns. From Word to Shape, Antonio Becchi 13. From One Curve to Another or the Problem of Changing Coordinates in Stereotomic Layouts, Joël Sakarovitch 14. The Squinch of Anet, Martina Lenz Conclusion APPENDICES A. From Words to Technical Practices: Moulds and Naval Architecture in the Middle Ages, Eric Rieth B. The Rare Traces of Constructional Procedures in “Practical Geometries”, Jens Høyrup C. Draughting Curves Used in Ship Design, Jobst Lessenich D. Bibliographical Notes on Historical Metrology, Compiled by Jobst Lessenich IndexReviewsAuthor InformationHorst Nowacki, Dr.-Ing. (1963) in Naval Architecture, Technical University of Berlin, Prof. of Ship Design at TU Berlin (1974-1998), has published about 200 articles and books on naval architecture and ship theory including Computational Geometry for Ships, co-authored with M.I.G. Bloor and B. Oleksiewicz (World Scientific Publ., Singapore, 1995). Wolfgang Lefèvre, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Professor for Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and Senior Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, until 2006. He has published extensively on history of philosophy, science, and technology including Picturing Machines (MIT Press, 2004). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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