Robert Hooke - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Robert Hooke write by Michael Hunter. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Robert Hooke available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being acclaimed in their own right. Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society when it was chartered in 1662 and author of the famous Micrographia (1665), Hooke also showed unparalleled ingenuity in designing machines and instruments, and played a crucial role as Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire. This volume represents a benchmark in the study of Hooke, bringing together a comprehensive set of studies of different aspects of his life, thought and artistry. Its sections deal with Hooke's life and reputation; his contributions to celestial mechanics and astronomy, and to speculative natural philosophy; the instruments that he designed; and his work in architecture and construction. The introduction places the studies in the context of our current understanding of Hooke and his milieu, while the book also contains a comprehensive bibliography. In all, it will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in a figure whose complexity and importance are becoming clear after centuries of neglect.
Wicked Intelligence
Wicked Intelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wicked Intelligence write by Matthew C. Hunter. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Wicked Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the “exact proportions” of sea monsters—all were created by members of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform of the early Scientific Revolution. Wicked Intelligence reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London’s emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture such as St Paul’s Cathedral. Matthew C. Hunter brings to life this archive of experimental-philosophical visualization and the deft cunning that was required to manage such difficult research. Offering an innovative approach to the scientific image-making of the time, he demonstrates how the Restoration project of synthesizing experimental images into scientific knowledge, as practiced by Royal Society leaders Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren, might be called “wicked intelligence.” Hunter uses episodes involving specific visual practices—for instance, concocting a lethal amalgam of wax, steel, and sulfuric acid to produce an active model of a comet—to explore how Hooke, Wren, and their colleagues devised representational modes that aided their experiments. Ultimately, Hunter argues, the craft and craftiness of experimental visual practice both promoted and menaced the artistic traditions on which they drew, turning the Royal Society projects into objects of suspicion in Enlightenment England. The first book to use the physical evidence of Royal Society experiments to produce forensic evaluations of how scientific knowledge was generated, Wicked Intelligence rethinks the parameters of visual art, experimental philosophy, and architecture at the cusp of Britain’s imperial power and artistic efflorescence.
Compass and Rule
Compass and Rule - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Compass and Rule write by Anthony Gerbino. This book was released on 2009. Compass and Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This stimulating book, which focuses in particular on the scientist, mathematician, and architect Sir Christopher Wren, explores the extent to which this new professional identity was based on expertise in the mathematical arts and sciences. Featuring drawings, instruments, paintings, and other examples of the material culture of English architecture, the book discusses the role of mathematics in architectural design and building technology. It begins with architectural drawing in the 16th century, moves to large-scale technical drawing under Henry VIII, considers Inigo Jones and his royal buildings and Christopher Wren and the dome of St. Paul's, and concludes with the architectural education of George III. Interweaving text and visual image, the book investigates the boundaries between art and science in architecture--the most artistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the arts. Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (opens February 2010)
The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren
The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren write by J. A. Bennett. This book was released on 2002-06-20. The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers Wren's 'other' career as an astronomer, and shows how science informed his architectural philosophy.
Register of the University of Oxford
Register of the University of Oxford - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Register of the University of Oxford write by University of Oxford. This book was released on 1885. Register of the University of Oxford available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
