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1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Infinity of God and Space of Men in Painting, Conditions of Possibility for the Scientific Revolution -- 1.1. A brief introduction to infinity -- 1.2. Infinity in painting and the invention of mathematical space -- 1.3. Geometrical optics and the subject in projective space -- 1.4. The limit of time, calculus and algebra -- 1.5. Rational spaces: from trade to physics -- 1.6. Setting a priori conditions of representation and knowledge -- 1.7. Spaces of possibilities for the evolution of life? |
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1.8. Conclusion and opening: heterogeneous spaces of biological evolution -- 2. Geometry and the Life of Forms -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Taking form -- 2.2.1. Early geometries -- 2.2.2. Geometrizing complexity -- 2.2.3. Morphogeneses -- 2.3. Art and geometry -- 2.3.1. Geometric art before its time -- 2.3.2. From geometric abstraction to digital art -- 2.3.3. Three legatees of geometric art -- 2.4. Beyond geometry -- 2.4.1. Quantic and cosmic -- 2.4.2. Outline and content -- 2.4.3. From form to the sublime -- 3. Among the Trees: Iterating Geneses of Forms, in Art and Nature |
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4. The Passion of Flight: From Leonardo da Vinci to Jean Letourneur -- 4.1. Introduction: from legend to reality -- 4.2. Leonardo da Vinci and the basis of the theory of flight -- 4.2.1. Chief engineer to Francis I of France -- 4.2.2. The flying propeller -- 4.2.3. Flapping-wing flight -- 4.2.4. Why can't man fly like a bird? -- 4.2.5. The basis of Leonardo da Vinci's theory of flight -- 4.3. Pioneers of the air and the first fluid movement visualizations -- 4.3.1. Clément Ader (1841-1925), a distant successor of Leonardo da Vinci, invents the aeroplane |
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4.3.2. The oil king presides over the surge in flight -- 4.3.3. From Magnus to Lanchester: the difficult gestation of the theory of flight -- 4.3.4. Gustave Eiffel highlights the suction component of lift force -- 4.3.5. Étienne-Jules Marey takes the first images of fluid movement -- 4.4. From Henri Werlé to Jean Letourneur, the sculptor of fluid movement -- 4.4.1. Henri Werlé or "the Master" of ONERA's water tunnel -- 4.4.2. Jean Letourneur, interpreter of snapshots -- 4.4.3. As the 21st Century dawns, Jean Letourneur gathers momentum -- 4.5. Conclusion |
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4.6. Appendix: additions to the chapter entitled "Why Can't Man Fly?", which refers to the article by Marielle Vergès and Kamil Fadel (see footnote 15) -- 5. Sculptor of Fluid Movement -- 5.1. References -- 6. Internal Geometry of "Salvator Mundi" (The "Cook Version", Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci) -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Distinctive features of the works of Leonardo da Vinci -- 6.3. Presentation of the Salvator Mundi, Cook version -- 6.4. Investigating the compositional mesh -- 6.5. Compositional format -- 6.6. Elements of the internal geometry of the Salvator Mundi, Cook version |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Mathematics in art.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maurel, Marie-Christine
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| ISBN |
9781119801788 |
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1119801788 |
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