NDLI: Prodromes of Descriptive Geometry in the Traité de stéréotomie by Amédée François Frézier

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Author	Salvatore, Marta
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Among the sciences involved in the theorization of descriptive geometry, the stereotomy played a prominent role. The knowledge of the theory of the surfaces of which bodies are made up, their plane sections, their intersections, the representation methods to control the design operations in the plane, is the core of stereotomic design. This makes the stereotomy the forerunner, in terms of theory and tools, of modern descriptive geometry. A seminal essay is the 1737–1739 Traité de stéréotomie by Amédée François Frézier. This work, published a few years before Monge’s Géométrie descriptive, summarize the descriptive geometry’s state-of-the-art in that period. Notably in the first book, Frézier publishes an original study about the intersections between quadric surfaces and the projective-geometrical properties of the fourth-order curves derived from them. On sait que les procédés plus ou moins ingénieux employés depuis longtemps dans la coupe des pierres et la charpente ont conduit Monge à la création de la géométrie descriptive. Les secrets d’ateliers réunis, classés, et surtout rattachés à un petit nombre de principes, ont constitué les éléments d’une branche importante des sciences appliquées. Aujourd’hui la géométrie descriptive est enseignée d’une manière indépendante des questions qui lui ont donné naissance; néanmoins, parmi ses applications les plus utiles, il faut citer le tracé des épures relatives à la coupe des pierres et à la charpente. La plupart des exercices à traiter se rapportent à l’intersection des surfaces [Frere Gabriel Marie 1877/1996: 376)].
Starting Page	671
Ending Page	699
Page Count	29
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15905896
Journal	Nexus Network Journal
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15224600
Language	English
Publisher	SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Publisher Date	2011-11-22
Publisher Place	Basel
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Stereotomy descriptive geometry Amédée François Frézier Girard Desargues Alexis Claude Clairaut coupe de pierres stonecutting stonecutters masonry architecture quadric surfaces quartics curves of double curvature right cone oblique cone conic sections circular sections History Popular Science History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Mathematics
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