Ebook: Entre Mécanique et Architecture / Between Mechanics and Architecture

This book is a collective work and its richness lies in the diversity of the perspectives, all historical, focussed on the science of building. Its aim is to counter-balance the picture of architecture provided by art historians who, in general, study the evolution of buildings. In this book, the authors look into what is related to the actual act of building, to the means of assuring building stability. While historians of art are principally concerned with the esthetics of a monument, here the accent is put on the development of the physico- mathematical theories of mechanics to which engineers and constructors have turned, and to the laws of mechanics, of elasticity and of the strength of materials to which they are bound. The study of perspective and projective geometry also enters the work by way of the representations and plans of the buildings to be constructed. The art of building has always been at the center of human endeavors, and the will to see this art advance has had repercussions in all related fields. Today, these complex interrelations provide the groundwork for research of the restoration of historical monuments.

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This book is a collective work and its richness lies in the diversity of the perspectives, all historical, focussed on the science of building. Its aim is to counter-balance the picture of architecture provided by art historians who, in general, study the evolution of buildings. In this book, the authors look into what is related to the actual act of building, to the means of assuring building stability. While historians of art are principally concerned with the esthetics of a monument, here the accent is put on the development of the physico- mathematical theories of mechanics to which engineers and constructors have turned, and to the laws of mechanics, of elasticity and of the strength of materials to which they are bound. The study of perspective and projective geometry also enters the work by way of the representations and plans of the buildings to be constructed. The art of building has always been at the center of human endeavors, and the will to see this art advance has had repercussions in all related fields. Today, these complex interrelations provide the groundwork for research of the restoration of historical monuments.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Entre M?canique et Architecture....Pages 7-20
La construction des «Nuraghi» en Sardaigne (Le «Nuraghe» envisag? comme machine de lui-m?me)....Pages 21-32
The so-called «Petrification» and the Birth of the Science of Construction in the Greek Architecture....Pages 33-48
Formules d’architectes dans les receptaires et les manuscrits d’arpentage de l’Antiquit? et du haut Moyen Age....Pages 49-68
La g?om?trisation des qualit?s physiques au XVI?me si?cle: les mod?les de la th?orie des proportions....Pages 69-88
De la perspective `la g?om?trie projective: le cas du th?or?me de Desargues sur les triangles homologiques....Pages 89-102
On the Art of Building before Galilei....Pages 103-122
The Analogy between Equilibrium of Threads and Thin Masonry Structures....Pages 123-140
Le « de curvatura fornicis» de Jacob Bernoulli ou l’introduction des infiniment petits dans le calcul des vo?tes....Pages 141-164
Jacob II Bernoulli and the Problem of the Vibrating Plate....Pages 165-178
Une conception architecturale des math?matiques: la s?paration des variables chez Pfaff....Pages 179-204
The Teaching of Stereotomy in Engineering Schools in France in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries: an Application of Geometry, an “Applied Geometry”, or a Construction Technique?....Pages 205-220
De la statique des demi-fluides `la th?orie de la pouss?e des terres....Pages 221-256
Entre science et art de l’ing?nieur. L’enseignement de Navier `l’Ecole des Ponts et Chauss?es....Pages 257-274
Un monument du xix si?cle `Turin: le Pont Mosca sur la Doire....Pages 275-288
Les conditions de r?sistance des mat?riaux entre resistentia solidorum et hydro-st?r?odynamique ....Pages 289-300
The Theory of Elasticity between Molecular and Continuum Approach in the xix Century....Pages 301-316
Construction Engineering and Natural Philosophy: the Work by Gabriel Lam?....Pages 317-330
Comment la th?orie de l’?lasticit? s’est impos?e `l’analyse de la structure portante des vo?tes dans les pays germanophones de 1860 a 1900....Pages 331-348
Le calcul par la m?thode des ?l?ments finis appliqu? `la restauration. Une exp?rience: la cath?drale de Beauvais....Pages 349-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-399

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This book is a collective work and its richness lies in the diversity of the perspectives, all historical, focussed on the science of building. Its aim is to counter-balance the picture of architecture provided by art historians who, in general, study the evolution of buildings. In this book, the authors look into what is related to the actual act of building, to the means of assuring building stability. While historians of art are principally concerned with the esthetics of a monument, here the accent is put on the development of the physico- mathematical theories of mechanics to which engineers and constructors have turned, and to the laws of mechanics, of elasticity and of the strength of materials to which they are bound. The study of perspective and projective geometry also enters the work by way of the representations and plans of the buildings to be constructed. The art of building has always been at the center of human endeavors, and the will to see this art advance has had repercussions in all related fields. Today, these complex interrelations provide the groundwork for research of the restoration of historical monuments.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Entre M?canique et Architecture....Pages 7-20
La construction des «Nuraghi» en Sardaigne (Le «Nuraghe» envisag? comme machine de lui-m?me)....Pages 21-32
The so-called «Petrification» and the Birth of the Science of Construction in the Greek Architecture....Pages 33-48
Formules d’architectes dans les receptaires et les manuscrits d’arpentage de l’Antiquit? et du haut Moyen Age....Pages 49-68
La g?om?trisation des qualit?s physiques au XVI?me si?cle: les mod?les de la th?orie des proportions....Pages 69-88
De la perspective `la g?om?trie projective: le cas du th?or?me de Desargues sur les triangles homologiques....Pages 89-102
On the Art of Building before Galilei....Pages 103-122
The Analogy between Equilibrium of Threads and Thin Masonry Structures....Pages 123-140
Le « de curvatura fornicis» de Jacob Bernoulli ou l’introduction des infiniment petits dans le calcul des vo?tes....Pages 141-164
Jacob II Bernoulli and the Problem of the Vibrating Plate....Pages 165-178
Une conception architecturale des math?matiques: la s?paration des variables chez Pfaff....Pages 179-204
The Teaching of Stereotomy in Engineering Schools in France in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries: an Application of Geometry, an “Applied Geometry”, or a Construction Technique?....Pages 205-220
De la statique des demi-fluides `la th?orie de la pouss?e des terres....Pages 221-256
Entre science et art de l’ing?nieur. L’enseignement de Navier `l’Ecole des Ponts et Chauss?es....Pages 257-274
Un monument du xix si?cle `Turin: le Pont Mosca sur la Doire....Pages 275-288
Les conditions de r?sistance des mat?riaux entre resistentia solidorum et hydro-st?r?odynamique ....Pages 289-300
The Theory of Elasticity between Molecular and Continuum Approach in the xix Century....Pages 301-316
Construction Engineering and Natural Philosophy: the Work by Gabriel Lam?....Pages 317-330
Comment la th?orie de l’?lasticit? s’est impos?e `l’analyse de la structure portante des vo?tes dans les pays germanophones de 1860 a 1900....Pages 331-348
Le calcul par la m?thode des ?l?ments finis appliqu? `la restauration. Une exp?rience: la cath?drale de Beauvais....Pages 349-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-399
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