Geometry on paper and on the ground in the last third of the seventeenth century. Leclercs and Manesson-Mallets contribution and influence
| Author(s): |
Javier Girón
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| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium |
| Published in: | Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories [2 vols.] |
| Page(s): | 675-681 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries under the name of “practical geometry” were gathering a growing body of knowledge and practices developed by artisans, architects, surveyors, or engineers in order to solve problems of surveying, measurement and construction. In this context one of the problems to be tackled was straightaway linked to the first step to be taken when building: how to set up on the ground a design drawn at scale on paper. We will see here the answer given to this problem in France, between the last third of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century by authors coming from several disciplines: artists like S. Leclerc, engineers like A. Manesson-Mallet, and theorists of gardening such as A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville or S. Switzer. |
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