François Blondel
Subtitle: architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution
By: Anthony Gerbino.
Contributors: Blondel, François, 1618-1686.
Series: The classical tradition in architecture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780415491990
Subjects: Blondel, François, -- 1618-1686 -- Criticism and interpretation; Architectural practice -- France -- History -- 17th century; Classicism in architecture -- France; Architecture -- Mathematics
Other titles: Architecture, erudition, and the scientific revolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mathematician, engineer, courtier; title: The rebirth of French classicism: the Académie royale d'architecture; title: The rebirth of French classicism II: Paris; title: Architects and mathematicians; title: Architecture versus erudition: the Perrault-Blondel debate revisited; title: Architecture and the Encyclopedia: Blondel as reader and collector; title: Conclusion: Blondel's Nachleben.