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Book Review
Compass and Rule. Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England
04/2010 | 1285 | 152
Pages: 250-251
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Reviewer:
Hopkins, Owen (Hopkins, Owen)
Subjects
artists:
Wren, Christopher
buildings:
Saint Paul's Cathedral, London, Great Britain
dates:
2000-2009 / 1650-1699
museums and institutions:
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
museums and institutions:
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, Great Britain
print:
Wren, Christopher
subjects:
British architecture / Architectural history / Exhibitions / Mathematics
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Compass and Rule. Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England | author: Gerbino, Anthony , author: Johnston, Stephen
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Attributed works:
52. Design for the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral, in two half-sections, each incorporating the curve of a cubic parabola, by Christopher Wren. c.1690. Pen and brown ink, 21.3 by 24.5 cm. (British Museum, London)