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FROM SUMMETRIA TO SYMMETRY IBD

SPRINGER
11 / 2010
9789048178841
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Sinopsis

1. Introduction, 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, 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? References