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Title Creating shapes in civil and naval architecture : a cross-disciplinary comparison / edited by Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefèvre
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 398 pages, 47 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 11
History of science and medicine library ; v. 11.
Contents Introduction -- Shape Creation Knowledge in Civil and Naval Architecture / Horst Nowacki -- Antiquity -- On the Use of Design in Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction / Patrice Pomey -- Were the Hittites Able to Build a Replica of an Egyptian Ship According to Their Own Drawings? / Lucien Basch -- Reply to Lucien Basch / Patrice Pomey -- Markings and Pegs: Clues to Geometrical Procedures of Roman Naval Architecture? / Ronald Bockius -- Ancient Greek and Roman Architects' Approach to Curvature -- The Corinthian Capital, Entasis and Amphitheaters / Mark Wilson Jones -- Middle ages -- "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 -- 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 -- Gothic and Renaissance Design Strategies in Stonecutting / Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López -- On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry / Jos Tomlow -- Modern era -- The Shipbuilding Text of Michael of Rhodes / David McGee -- Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic and Geometry into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry / Ulrich Alertz -- Pregnant Columns. From Word to Shape / Antonio Becchi -- From One Curve to Another or the Problem of Changing Coordinates in Stereotomic Layouts / Joël Sakarovitch -- The Squinch of Anet / Martina Lenz -- Conclusions -- 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 by Jobst Lessenich
Summary The design, construction and fabrication of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in civil and naval architecture have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. This volume presents a comparative knowledge history in these two distinct branches of construction engineering
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Naval architecture -- Design and construction -- History
Hulls (Naval architecture) -- Design and construction -- History
Shape theory (Topology)
Structural optimization.
Shipbuilding -- History
TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
Hulls (Naval architecture) -- Design and construction
Naval architecture -- Design and construction
Shape theory (Topology)
Shipbuilding
Structural optimization
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Nowacki, H. (Horst)
Lefèvre, Wolfgang, 1941-
ISBN 9789047426912
9047426916