Author: George ADAMS (Mathematical Instrument Maker, the Younger.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Geometrical and Graphical Essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new practical problems. The third edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, etc
Author: George ADAMS (Mathematical Instrument Maker, the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Geometrical and Graphical Essays, Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling, and Perspective
Author: George AdamsGeometrical and Graphical Essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling and perspective; with many new practical problems. Illustrated by thirty-four copper plates ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged, etc
Author: George ADAMS (Mathematical Instrument Maker, the Younger.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Geometrical and Graphical Essays Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry ... with Many New Practical Problems Illustrated by Thirty Four Copper Plates by the Late George Adams
Author: George AdamsGeometrical and Graphical Essays
Author: George AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Formulations
Author: Andrew WittPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543001
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century. In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history, but rather architecture’s encounters with a range of calculational systems—techniques that architects inventively retooled for design. Witt offers a catalog of mid-twentieth-century practices of mathematical drawing and calculation in design that preceded and anticipated digitization as well as an account of the formal compendia that became a cultural currency shared between modern mathematicians and modern architects. Witt presents a series of extensively illustrated “biographies of method”—episodes that chart the myriad ways in which mathematics, particularly the mathematical notion of modeling and drawing, was spliced into the creative practice of design. These include early drawing machines that mechanized curvature; the incorporation of geometric maquettes—“theorems made flesh”—into the toolbox of design; the virtualization of buildings and landscapes through surveyed triangulation and photogrammetry; formal and functional topology; stereoscopic drawing; the economic implications of cubic matrices; and a strange synthesis of the technological, mineral, and biological: crystallographic design. Trained in both architecture and mathematics, Witt uses mathematics as a lens through which to understand the relationship between architecture and a much broader set of sciences and visual techniques. Through an intercultural exchange with other disciplines, he argues, architecture adapted not only the shapes and surfaces of mathematics but also its values and epistemic ideals.
William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape
Author: Andrew MacnairPublisher: Windgather Press
ISBN: 1905119852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the eighteenth-century "cartographic revolution". It explores what the map, and others like it, can tell us about contemporary social and economic geography. But it also shows how, carefully examined, the map can also inform us about the development of the Norfolk landscape in much more remote periods of time. The book includes a digital version of the map, on DVD. Andrew Macnair is Research Fellow at the School of History in the University of East Anglia; Tom Williamson is Professor of History and Head of the Landscape Group at the University of East Anglia.
Irish National Inventory of Historic Scientific Instruments
Author: Charles MollanPublisher: Charles Mollan
ISBN: 1898706050
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Carried out over a period of ten years, this is a listing of scientific instruments dating before 1920, preserved in many collections throughout the island of Ireland. It gives location, date, and description for each of the more than 5,000 entries, together, where appropriate, with relevant accompanying detail. It demonstrates clearly that Ireland has an important resource which hitherto had not been appreciated. It also preserves information about collections which have since been lost, sold, or otherwise dispersed.
Catalogue of the Library of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y..
Author: United States Military Academy. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Catalogue of the Engineer Department, United States Army
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385420687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.