Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture

A Cross-Disciplinary Comparison
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17345-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 925 g

Reihe: History of Science and Medicine Library

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nowacki, Horst

Lefèvre, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Díaz and José Calvo López

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, Joël 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 Høyrup

C. Draughting Curves Used in Ship Design, Jobst Lessenich

D. Bibliographical Notes on Historical Metrology, Compiled by Jobst Lessenich

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 Lefèvre, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Professor for Philosophy at the Freie Universität 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).