Mathematics in the Visual Arts

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheps, Ruth
Otros Autores: Maurel, Marie-Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2021.
Temas:
Mathematics in art.
Mathématiques dans l'art.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Infinity of God and Space of Men in Painting, Conditions of Possibility for the Scientific Revolution
  • 1.1. A brief introduction to infinity
  • 1.2. Infinity in painting and the invention of mathematical space
  • 1.3. Geometrical optics and the subject in projective space
  • 1.4. The limit of time, calculus and algebra
  • 1.5. Rational spaces: from trade to physics
  • 1.6. Setting a priori conditions of representation and knowledge
  • 1.7. Spaces of possibilities for the evolution of life?
  • 1.8. Conclusion and opening: heterogeneous spaces of biological evolution
  • 2. Geometry and the Life of Forms
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Taking form
  • 2.2.1. Early geometries
  • 2.2.2. Geometrizing complexity
  • 2.2.3. Morphogeneses
  • 2.3. Art and geometry
  • 2.3.1. Geometric art before its time
  • 2.3.2. From geometric abstraction to digital art
  • 2.3.3. Three legatees of geometric art
  • 2.4. Beyond geometry
  • 2.4.1. Quantic and cosmic
  • 2.4.2. Outline and content
  • 2.4.3. From form to the sublime
  • 3. Among the Trees: Iterating Geneses of Forms, in Art and Nature
  • 4. The Passion of Flight: From Leonardo da Vinci to Jean Letourneur
  • 4.1. Introduction: from legend to reality
  • 4.2. Leonardo da Vinci and the basis of the theory of flight
  • 4.2.1. Chief engineer to Francis I of France
  • 4.2.2. The flying propeller
  • 4.2.3. Flapping-wing flight
  • 4.2.4. Why can't man fly like a bird?
  • 4.2.5. The basis of Leonardo da Vinci's theory of flight
  • 4.3. Pioneers of the air and the first fluid movement visualizations
  • 4.3.1. Clément Ader (1841-1925), a distant successor of Leonardo da Vinci, invents the aeroplane
  • 4.3.2. The oil king presides over the surge in flight
  • 4.3.3. From Magnus to Lanchester: the difficult gestation of the theory of flight
  • 4.3.4. Gustave Eiffel highlights the suction component of lift force
  • 4.3.5. Étienne-Jules Marey takes the first images of fluid movement
  • 4.4. From Henri Werlé to Jean Letourneur, the sculptor of fluid movement
  • 4.4.1. Henri Werlé or "the Master" of ONERA's water tunnel
  • 4.4.2. Jean Letourneur, interpreter of snapshots
  • 4.4.3. As the 21st Century dawns, Jean Letourneur gathers momentum
  • 4.5. Conclusion
  • 4.6. Appendix: additions to the chapter entitled "Why Can't Man Fly?", which refers to the article by Marielle Vergès and Kamil Fadel (see footnote 15)
  • 5. Sculptor of Fluid Movement
  • 5.1. References
  • 6. Internal Geometry of "Salvator Mundi" (The "Cook Version", Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci)
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Distinctive features of the works of Leonardo da Vinci
  • 6.3. Presentation of the Salvator Mundi, Cook version
  • 6.4. Investigating the compositional mesh
  • 6.5. Compositional format
  • 6.6. Elements of the internal geometry of the Salvator Mundi, Cook version

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