Practice and science in early modern Italian building : towards an epistemic history of architecture / edited by Hermann Schlimme.

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Practice and science in early modern Italian building : towards an epistemic history of architecture / edited by Hermann Schlimme.

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314 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
Towards an epistemic history of architecture / Claudia Bührig [and others] -- Introduction: Practice and science in early modern Italian building / Hermann Schlimme -- Italian medieval building practice in contemporary visual representations / Klaus Tragbar -- Modes and techniques of building on water in 16th-century Rome / Claudia Conforti -- A window on the past: what the study of historic fenestration practices can tell us about the nature of architecture / Hentie Louw -- Architecture as mathematical science: the case of "Architectura Obliqua" / Filippo Camerota -- Between architecture, science and technology: the Accademia della Vachia in Florence, 1661-1662 / Hermann Schlimme -- Eggs, turnips and chains: rhetoric and rhetoricians of architecture / Antonio Becchi -- Building accounts as architectural drawings, Borromini's construction practice and the role of Francesco Righi / Vitale Zanchettin -- Building materials, tools and machinery belonging to the Reverenda Fabbrica di San Pietro, used for building Rome from the late 16th to the late 19th century / Maria Grazia D'Amelio -- Tradition and technological innovation on Roman building sites from the 16th to the 18th century: construction machines, building practice and the diffusion of technical knowledge / Nicoletta Marconi -- MANUSCRIPT EDITION -- The Accademia della Vachia Critical, commented edition of the unpublished manuscript Fondo Nazionale II_46, Biblioteca nazionale Centrale, Florence / edited by Hermann Schlimme.

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Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

8837042353
9788837042356
5408837042356

Subject:

Building Italy 16th century.
Architecture Italy History 16th century.
Construction Italie 16e siècle.
Architecture Italie Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture.
Building.
Architektur
Bautechnik
Italy.
Italien

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History.

Added entries:

Schlimme, Hermann, 1969-

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Location: Library main 249306
Call No.: BIB 178895
Status: Available

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