Main entry:

Hersey, George L.

Title & Author:

Architecture and geometry in the age of the Baroque / George L. Hersey.

Publication:

Description:

273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-266) and index.
Baroque Architecture and Baroque Geometry -- Effable Shapes -- Square-Based Proportion -- Effable Number Sequences -- The Golden Section Sequence -- The Fibonacci Sequence -- Heavenly Fabrics -- 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 Bernini's Baldacchino -- 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 Pantheon -- Armillary Spheres and Orreries -- Boullee's Newton Tomb -- St. Bride's, Fleet Street -- Cubices Rationes -- Engendering Geometry -- "Congruence" or Tiling -- The Cube and Its Progeny -- Pregnant Platonic Solids -- Rhombic and Archimedean Solids -- Symmetries -- What Is Symmetry? -- What Has Symmetry Been? -- Reflective Symmetry -- Translatory Symmetry -- Glide Symmetry -- Wallpaper Symmetry -- Further Adventures of the Nine-Square Lattice -- Spiral Symmetries -- 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 Paraboloids -- Projection -- Projective Geometry -- Descartes's Lattice -- The Costruzione Legittima -- Girard Desargues's Perspective.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The age of the Baroque, a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics, witnessed the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. What did the work of great architects such as Bernini, Blondel, Guarini, and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo, Kepler, Desargues, and Newton? In Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque, George Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its dramatic shapes and playful experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He introduces us to a concept of geometry that encompassed much more than the science we know today, one that included geometrics (number and shape games) as well as the art of geomancy, or magic and prophecy using shapes and numbers."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0226327833 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226327839 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226327841 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226327846 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Baroque Europe.
Architecture Europe History 17th century.
Architecture Europe History 18th century.
Architectural design Mathematics.
Geometry in architecture Europe.
Architecture Europe 18th century.
Architecture baroque Europe.
Architecture Europe 17e siècle.
Design architectural Mathématiques.
Géométrie en architecture Europe.
Architecture Europe 18e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture, Baroque.
Geometry in architecture.
Proportion
Geometrisches Ornament
Barock
Architektur
Geometrie
Bouwkunst.
Geometrische aspecten.
Barok.
Arquitetura barroca Europa.
Arquitetura moderna (século 17;século 18)
Desenho arquitetônico.
Geometria (arquitetura)
Architecture, Modern Europe History.
Baroque architecture Europe.
Harmonie.
Architecture Europe 17th century.
Europe.
Arquitectura Barroco Europa.
Arquitectura moderna Europa Siglos XVII-XVIII.
Diseño arquitectónico Matemáticas Geometría.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217623
Call No.: NA956.H4 2000
Status: Available