Geometrical objects: architecture and the mathematical sciences 1400-1800

Introduction / Anthony Gerbino

Part I. Foundations : Proportion and continuous variation in Vitruvius's De Architectura / Bernard Cache

Part II. Mathematics and material culture in Italian Renaissance architecture : The Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna: precision and tolerance in a building all'Antica / Francesco Benelli

Practical mathematics in the drawings of Baldassarre Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Yonger / Ann C. Huppert

Geometric survey and urban design: a project for the Rome of Paul IV (1555-1559) / David Friedman

Part III. The Baroque institutional context : Architecture and mathematics in early modern religious orders / Susan Klaiber

The master of painted architecture: Andrea Pozzo, S. J. and his treatise on perspective / Kirsti Andersen

Part IV. Narratives for the birth of structural mechanics : Geometry, mechanics, and analysis in architecture / Jacques Heyman

Epistemological obstacles to the analysis of structures: Giovanni Bottari's aversion to a mathematical assessment of Saint-Peter's Dome (1743) / Pascal Dubourg Glatigny

A scientific concept of beauty in architecture: Vitruvius meets Descartes, Galileo, and Newton / Filippo Camerota

Part V. Architecture and mathematical practice in the Enlightenment : Breathing room: calculating an architecture of air / Jeanne Kisacky

James "Athenian" Stuart and the geometry of setting out / David Yeomans, Jason M. Kelly, and Frank Salmon.