Sluneční hodiny na pevných stanovištích (2005) [Czech]

Sluneční hodiny jsou pozoruhodné kulturní památky. Snoubí se v nich matematika, geometrie, astronomie s uměním, architekturou či řemeslem. Bývají krásnou ozdobou budov a veřejných prostranství, připomínkou spojení našeho života se Sluncem, jsou i vynikající učební pomůckou.
V knize najdete katalog 2339 slunečních hodin na pevných stanovištích v Čechách, na Moravě, ve Slezsku a na Slovensku. Jedná se o první soupis svého druhu a rozsahu. Dozvíte se o principech fungování slunečních hodin, jejich stavbě a obnově, gnómonických zajímavostech a nejhezčích (ne nutně nejznámějších) slunečních hodinách na celém zpracovaném území.Pro návštěvníky Prahy, domácí i zahraniční, je připojen námět na vycházku za pražskými slunečními hodinami.

Sluneční hodiny na pevných stanovištích. Čechy, Morava, Slezsko a Slovensko
Edited by Miroslav Brož, Miloš Nosek, Jan Trebichavský, Drahomíra Pecinová
Publisher: Academia, Prague, 2005
ISBN 80-200-1204-4
EAN 9788020012043
404 pages

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Wolfgang Lefèvre (ed.): Picturing Machines 1400-1700 (2004)

“Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings—among them Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawings of mechanical devices—have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance for the architects and engineers themselves is seldom considered. The essays in Picturing Machines 1400-1700 take this alternate perspective and look at how drawing shaped the practice of early modern engineering. They do so through detailed investigations of specific images, looking at over 100 that range from sketches to perspective views to thoroughly constructed projections.

In early modern engineering practice, drawings were not merely visualizations of ideas but acted as models that shaped ideas. Picturing Machines establishes basic categories for the origins, purposes, functions, and contexts of early modern engineering illustrations, then treats a series of topics that not only focus on the way drawings became an indispensable means of engineering but also reflect the main stages in their historical development. The authors examine the social interaction conveyed by early machine images and their function as communication between practitioners; the knowledge either conveyed or presupposed by technical drawings, as seen in those of Giorgio Martini and Leonardo; drawings that required familiarity with geometry or geometric optics, including the development of architectural plans; and technical illustrations that bridged the gap between practical and theoretical mechanics.”

Publisher MIT Press, 2004
ISBN 0262122693, 9780262122696
347 pages

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Michele Emmer (ed.): The Visual Mind II (2005)

“Mathematical forms rendered visually can give aesthetic pleasure; certain works of art—Max Bill’s Moebius band sculpture, for example—can seem to be mathematics made visible. This collection of essays by artists and mathematicians continues the discussion of the connections between art and mathematics begun in the widely read first volume of The Visual Mind in 1993.

Mathematicians throughout history have created shapes, forms, and relationships, and some of these can be expressed visually. Computer technology allows us to visualize mathematical forms and relationships in new detail using, among other techniques, 3D modeling and animation. The Visual Mind proposes to compare the visual ideas of artists and mathematicians—not to collect abstract thoughts on a general theme, but to allow one point of view to encounter another. The contributors, who include art historian Linda Dalrymple Henderson and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, examine mathematics and aesthetics; geometry and art; mathematics and art; geometry, computer graphics, and art; and visualization and cinema. They discuss such topics as aesthetics for computers, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, cubism and relativity in twentieth-century art, the aesthetic value of optimal geometry, and mathematics and cinema.”

Published by MIT Press, 2005
ISBN 0262050765, 9780262050760
699 pages

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