Mathematics and architecture: the track of the \textit{entasis} due to Nicolas-François Blondel

DOI10.1007/S00407-020-00248-XMaRDI QIDQ2201991zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dominique Raynaud

Publication date 17 September 2020

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-020-00248-x

zbMATH Keywords

conic sectionsApolloniusmathematics and architectureVitruvius\textit{entasis}Académie Royale d'Architecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03) Mathematics and architecture (00A67) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

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• Architectural planning. From stone cutting to descriptive geometry. 16th to 19th century
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