Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / edited by Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefevre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nowacki, H. (Horst)

Lefèvre, Wolfgang, 1941-

Series:

History of science and medicine library ; v. 11.

History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naval architecture--Design and construction--History.

Naval architecture.

Hulls (Naval architecture)--Design and construction--History.

Hulls (Naval architecture).

Shape theory (Topology).

Structural optimization.

Shipbuilding--History.

Shipbuilding.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations, plates

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, id est, 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.

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre

Colour Plates I–LII / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre

Chapter One. Shape Creation Knowledge In Civil And Naval Architecture / Horst Nowacki

Chapter Two. On The Use Of Design In Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction / Patrice Pomey

Chapter Three. Were The Hittites Able To Build A Replica Of An Egyptian Ship According To Their Own Drawings? / Lucien Basch

Chapter Four. Markings And Pegs: Clues To Geometrical Procedures Of Roman Naval Architecture? / Ronald Bockius

Chapter Five. Ancient Greek And Roman Architects’ Approach To Curvature — The Corinthian Capital, Entasis And Amphitheaters / Mark Wilson Jones

Chapter Six. "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

Chapter Seven. 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

Chapter Eight. Gothic And Renaissance Design Strategies In Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López

Chapter Nine. On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry / Jos Tomlow

Chapter Ten. The Shipbuilding Text Of Michael Of Rhodes / David Mcgee

Chapter Eleven. Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic And Geometry Into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry / Ulrich Alertz

Chapter Twelve. Pregnant Columns. From Word To Shape / Antonio Becchi

Chapter Thirteen. From One Curve To Another Or The Problem Of Changing Coordinates In Stereotomic Layouts / Joël Sakarovitch

Chapter Fourteen. The Squinch Of Anet / Martina Lenz

Conclusions / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre

Appendices / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre

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 and Jobst Lessenich

Index / H. Nowacki and W. Lefèvre.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-60172-5

9786612601729

90-474-2691-6

OCLC:

593295850

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004173453.i-447 DOI