Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
Author/Editor | Hersey, George L. (Author) |
ISBN: 9780226327846
Pub Date | 01/12/2002 |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 284 |
Edition | New ed |
Dimensions (mm) | 23(h) * 18(w) * 2(d) |
The age of the baroque - a time of great strides in science and mathematics - also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. Hersey explores the interrelations of the two developments and how they cross-fertilised.
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The age of the baroque - a time of great strides in science and mathematics - also saw the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. In this book, George L. Hersey explores the interrelations of the two developments, explaining how the advancements of geometry and the abstractions of mathematicians were made concrete in the architecture of the day.