UID:
almahu_9949702073302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004315204
Series Statement:
Muqarnas, supplements ; v. XIII
Uniform Title:
Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutāwafiqa. English.
Content:
This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gülru Necipoğlu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile. This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects. For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay Özdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Introduction: In Memory of Alpay Özdural and His Unrealized Book Project /
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1 Ornamental Geometries: A Persian Compendium at the Intersection of the Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences /
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2 An Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources /
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3 A Mathematical Classification of the Contents of an Anonymous Persian Compendium on Decorative Patterns /
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4 Preliminaries /
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Translation, Transcription, and Drawings /
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Facsimile /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Arts of ornamental geometry Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 ISBN 9789004301962
Language:
English
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