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All Sides to an Oval - Properties, Parameters and Borromini's Mysterious Construction (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2019)
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All Sides to an Oval - Properties, Parameters and Borromini's Mysterious Construction (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2019)
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This is the second edition of the only book dedicated to the
Geometry of Polycentric Ovals. It includes problem solving
constructions and mathematical formulas. For anyone interested in
drawing or recognizing an oval, this book gives all the necessary
construction, representation and calculation tools. More than 30
basic construction problems are solved, with references to Geogebra
animation videos, plus the solution to the Frame Problem and
solutions to the Stadium Problem. A chapter (co-written with
Margherita Caputo) is dedicated to totally new hypotheses on the
project of Borromini's oval dome of the church of San Carlo alle
Quattro Fontane in Rome. Another one presents the case study of the
Colosseum as an example of ovals with eight centres as well as the
case study of Perronet's Neuilly bridge, a half oval with eleven
centres. The primary audience is: architects, graphic designers,
industrial designers, architecture historians, civil engineers;
moreover, the systematic way in which the book is organised could
make it a companion to a textbook on descriptive geometry or on
CAD. Added features in the 2nd edition include: the revised
hypothesis on Borromini's project for the dome of the church of San
Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome, an insight into the problem of
finding a single equation to represent a four-centre oval, a
suggestion for a representation of a four-centre oval using
Geogebra, formulas for parameters of ovals with more than 4 centres
and the case study of the eleven-centre half-oval arch used to
build the XVIII century Neuilly bridge in Paris.
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