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  • Between mechanics and architecture = the mathematical search for stability in architecture /
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    Title/Author: Between mechanics and architecture/ by Patricia Radelet-de Grave.
    Reminder of title: the mathematical search for stability in architecture /
    Author: Radelet-de Grave, P.
    Published: Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
    Description: xxiv, 568 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: Preface. What Do We Mean by Between Mechanics and Architecture? -- Chapter 1. Relations between Mechanics and Architecture through the History of the Parallelogram Law of Forces from Antiquity to 1800 -- Chapter 2. Mathematics, Architecture and Mechanics in the School of François d'Aguilon and Grégoire de Saint-Vincent -- Chapter 3. Is the Flat Vault a Lost Proposition in John Wallis's Work? -- Chapter 4. The Use of a Particular Form of the Parallelogram Law of Forces for the Building of Vaults (1650-1750) -- Chapter 5. The De curvatura fornicis of Jacob Bernoulli: The Introduction of the Infinitely Small into the Calculation of Arches -- Chapter 6. The Catenary, or How Differential Calculus Appeared on the Public Square -- Chapter 7. The Bernoullis and the Elastica: From Leibniz's Nova methodus to Euler's Methodus inveniendi -- Chapter 8. The Theory of Vaults of Pierre Bouguer -- Chapter 9. The Entasis of Columns from Blondel to Lagrange: Mathematical Games in Search of the Greatest Stability -- Chapter 10. A Study of Coulomb's Application of the Rules of Maxima and Minima to Problems of Statics -- Chapter 11. Jacques-Germain Soufflot and the Relationship between Rules and Taste -- Chapter 12. The Catenary as Inspiration -- Chapter 13. The Study of the Stability of Vaults by the Viscount of Nieuport -- Chapter 14. On Mascheroni's "New Researches on the Equilibrium of Vaults" -- Chapter 15. The Supports Problem: A Dead-End Street in the History of Stability of Structures -- Chapter 16. The Discovery of General Methods for Elastic Systems, 1852-1875 -- Chapter 17. The Industrial Revolution and its Consequences. Part I: Iron Frameworks and Cullmann's "Graphostatics".
    Contained By: Springer Nature eBook
    Subject: Architecture - Mathematics. -
    Online resource: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73530-1
    ISBN: 9783031735301
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