Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture
A Cross-Disciplinary Comparison
Published on 30. June 2009
Book
Hardback
470 pages
978-90-04-17345-3 (ISBN)
Description
The 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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
211 s/w Abbildungen, 52 farbige Abbildungen
52 Illustrations, color; 211 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
925 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-17345-3 (9789004173453)
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Persons
Horst 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 Lefevre, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Professor for Philosophy at the Freie Universitaet 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).
Wolfgang Lefevre, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Professor for Philosophy at the Freie Universitaet 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).
Content
List 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 Diaz and Jose Calvo Lopez
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, Joel 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 Hoyrup
C. Draughting Curves Used in Ship Design, Jobst Lessenich
D. Bibliographical Notes on Historical Metrology, Compiled by Jobst Lessenich
Index
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 Diaz and Jose Calvo Lopez
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, Joel 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 Hoyrup
C. Draughting Curves Used in Ship Design, Jobst Lessenich
D. Bibliographical Notes on Historical Metrology, Compiled by Jobst Lessenich
Index