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Architecture and the crisis of modern science

by Alberto Perez-Gomez

This study analyses how the use of number and geometry in architecture transitioned from mystical and numerological foundations to functional and technical applications between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century.

Accession 11835 ISBN 0262160919 Publisher MIT Press
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