The Topkapi Scroll
Title | The Topkapi Scroll PDF eBook |
Author | Gülru Necipoğlu |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 1996-03-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0892363355 |
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
A-Dick
Title | A-Dick PDF eBook |
Author | Luther Samuel Livingston |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 614 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |
Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws
Title | Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of the Treasury |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1718 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | Customs administration |
ISBN |
Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.
Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, and Other Laws
Title | Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, and Other Laws PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of the Treasury |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1560 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Finance, Public |
ISBN |
Written Comments on United States-Canada Free Trade Negotiations
Title | Written Comments on United States-Canada Free Trade Negotiations PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff, Navigation, and Other Laws
Title | Synopsis of the Decisions of the Treasury Department on the Construction of the Tariff, Navigation, and Other Laws PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of the Treasury |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 774 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Beginning with 1915 the Abstracts of decisions of the United States Customs court are included
Swinging and Rolling
Title | Swinging and Rolling PDF eBook |
Author | Jochen Büttner |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 2019-08-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9402415947 |
This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes. It has revealed the challenging objects that motivated and shaped Galileo's thinking and closely followed the knowledge reorganization engendered by theses challenges. It has thus turned out, for example, that the problem of reducing the properties of pendulum motion to the laws governing naturally accelerated motion on inclined planes was the mainspring for the formation of Galileo's comprehensive theory of naturally accelerated motion.