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De Huysbou: A reconstruction of an unfinished treatise on architecture, town planning and civil engineering by Simon Stevin

Door Charles van den Heuvel

Categorie
Algemeen Architectuur & Bouwkunde
Boeknummer
#356939-XH36
Titel
De Huysbou: A reconstruction of an unfinished treatise on architecture, town planning and civil engineering by Simon Stevin
Auteur
Heuvel, Charles van den
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Amsterdam : Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen/History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
906984432X
ISBN13
9789069844329
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original pictorial boards, some b/w illustrations, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Simon Steven (1548-1620) was one of the leading scholars of his day. As a scientist and engineer, he carved a career for himself in the breakaway Dutch Republic of the Northern Low Countries, developing theoretical innovations in mathematics and physics as well as practical innovations in civil engineering and military technology. Less well known is the project that Stevin worked on during the last twenty years of his life, a treatise on architecture and town planning. The earliest mention of De Huysbou occurs in the first volume of Steven's work on mathematics and other natural sciences, Wisconstighe Ghedachtenissen ('Mathematical Memoirs), published in 1605 This book deals with Stevin's unfinished, and until now only partly revealed architectural treatise. A first attempt has made to rec... (Lees verder)reate the envisaged De Huysbou as accurately as possible. De Huysbou will shed new light on the Dutch contribution to European architectural theory from the seventeenth century onwards, and in addition provide rich new source material for the history of science.
Pagina's
545
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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