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An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics - Part I: Statics and Resistance of Solids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics - Part I: Statics and Resistance of Solids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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This book is one of the finest I have ever read. To write a
foreword for it is an honor, difficult to accept. Everyone knows
that architects and master masons, long before there were
mathematical theories, erected structures of astonishing
originality, strength, and beauty. Many of these still stand. Were
it not for our now acid atmosphere, we could expect them to stand
for centuries more. We admire early architects' visible success in
the distribution and balance of thrusts, and we presume that master
masons had rules, perhaps held secret, that enabled them to turn
architects' bold designs into reality. Everyone knows that rational
theories of strength and elasticity, created centuries later, were
influenced by the wondrous buildings that men of the sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries saw daily. Theorists know
that when, at last, theories began to appear, architects distrusted
them, partly because they often disregarded details of importance
in actual construction, partly because nobody but a mathematician
could understand the aim and func tion of a mathematical theory
designed to represent an aspect of nature. This book is the first
to show how statics, strength of materials, and elasticity grew
alongside existing architecture with its millenial traditions, its
host of successes, its ever-renewing styles, and its numerous
problems of maintenance and repair. In connection with studies
toward repair of the dome of St. Peter's by Poleni in 1743, on p."
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