From summetria to symmetry : the making of a revolutionary scientific concept / Giora Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein.
Pubblicazione:
[S.l.] : Springer, c2008.
Descrizione fisica:
xvi, 335 p. ; 25 cm
Serie:
Archimedes ; 20
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Introduction. Pt. 1. Tradition, ancient perspectives and their survival in the early modern era: 2. The mathematical path 3. The aesthetic path 4. New aesthetic sensibilities in Italian and French architecture 5. The ancient concept of symmetry in scientific contexts in early modern times and its association with harmony. Pt. 2. The path to revolution, symmetry as a modern scientific concept: 6. The treatment of symmetry in natural history (1738-1815) 7. Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): revolutions that did not happen 8. Legendre's revolutionary definition of symmetry as a scientific concept (1794) 9. New applications of symmetry in mathematics and physics, 1788-1815. Coda: Legendre's choice of symmetry, what's in a word?. Postscript. References. Index
