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100 1 _aHon, Giora.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFrom Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2008.
300 _aXVI, 336 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
_x1385-0180 ;
_v20
505 0 _aTradition: Ancient Perspectives and Their SurvivalintheEarlyModernEra -- The Mathematical Path -- The Aesthetic Path -- New Aesthetic Sensibilities in Italian and French Architecture -- The Ancient Concept of Symmetry in Scientific Contexts in Early Modern Times and Its Association with Harmony -- The Path to Revolution: Symmetry as a Modern Scientific Concept -- The Treatment of Symmetry in Natural History (1738–1815) -- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): “Revolutions” That Did Not Happen -- Legendre’s Revolutionary Definition of Symmetry as a Scientific Concept (1794) -- New Applications of Symmetry in Mathematics and Physics: 1788–1815.
520 _aThe concept of symmetry is inherent to modern science, and its evolution has a complex history that richly exemplifies the dynamics of scientific change. This study is based on primary sources, presented in context: the authors examine closely the trajectory of the concept in the mathematical and scientific disciplines as well as its trajectory in art and architecture. The principal goal is to demonstrate that, despite the variety of usages in many different domains, there is a conceptual unity underlying the invocation of symmetry in the period from antiquity to the 1790s which is distinct from the scientific usages of this term that first emerged in France at the end of the 18th century. The key figure in revolutionizing the concept of symmetry is the mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre. His achievements in solid geometry (1794) are contrasted with the views of the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, on the directionality of space (1768).
650 0 _aHistory.
650 0 _aAesthetics.
650 0 _aPhilosophy and science.
650 0 _aArchitecture.
650 0 _aMathematics.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 1 4 _aHistory.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Science.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Science.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Mathematical Sciences.
650 2 4 _aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
650 2 4 _aArchitectural History and Theory.
650 2 4 _aAesthetics.
700 1 _aGoldstein, Bernard R.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9781402084478
830 0 _aArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
_x1385-0180 ;
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8448-5
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950 _aHumanities, Social Sciences and Law (Springer-11648)
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