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Alexander, Amir R.
Geometry -- History.
Geometry.
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Proof
! :
how
the
world
became
geometrical
/ Amir Alexander.
by
Alexander, Amir R.
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Call #:
516 A374p
Subjects
Geometry -- History.
Geometry.
ISBN:
9780374254902 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How
the
world
became
geometrical
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I :
How
the
world
became
geometrical
. The mirror image -- The
geometrical
code -- Part II : Euclid's kingdom. Royal geometries -- The return of the king -- The king's garden -- Part III : The Sun King's touch. Beyond Versailles -- The Euclidean Republic -- Conclusion : The non-Euclidean
world
.
Summary:
"On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to the Cathedral of Florence, facing the ancient Baptistery across the piazza. As puzzled passers-by looked on, he raised a small painting to his face, then held a mirror in front of the painting. Few at the time understood what he was up to; even he barely had an inkling of what was at stake. But on that day, the master craftsman and engineer Filippo Brunelleschi would prove that the
world
and everything within it was governed by the ancient science of geometry. In
Proof
!, the award-winning historian Amir Alexander traces the path of the
geometrical
vision of the
world
as it coursed its way from the Renaissance to the present, shaping our societies, our politics, and our ideals. Geometry came to stand for a fixed and unchallengeable universal order, and kings, empire-builders, and even republican revolutionaries would rush to cast their rule as the apex of the
geometrical
universe. For who could doubt the right of a ruler or the legitimacy of a government that drew its power from the immutable principles of Euclidean geometry? From the elegant terraces of Versailles to the broad avenues of Washington, DC and on to the boulevards of New Delhi and Manila, the
geometrical
vision was carved into the landscape of modernity. Euclid, Alexander shows, made the
world
as we know it possible."--From publisher.
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