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Quarries and quarrying --- Carrières (Exploitations minières) --- Building, Stone --- Geology --- Stone building --- Stone construction --- History --- Egypt --- Antiquities. --- Building

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This book deals with the general concepts in stereotomy and its connection with descriptive geometry, the social background of its practitioners and theoreticians, the general methods and tools of this technology, and the specific procedures for the members built in hewn stone, including arches, squinches, stairs and vaults, ending with a chapter discussing the open problems in this field. Thus, it can be used as a reference book in the subject, but it can also read as a compelling narrative on this subject, one of the main branches of pre-industrial technology. Construction in hewn stone requires the use of geometrical methods and tools to assure that individual stones, either blocks or voussoirs, fit with one another and conform to the general shape of walls, arches or vaults. During the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, such techniques and instruments were developed empirically by masons and architects. Later on, learned mathematicians and engineers introduced refinements in these procedures and this branch of knowledge, known as stereotomy, furnished much material to descriptive geometry, a science born with the French Revolution which provided the foundation for projective geometry.

Stereotomy --- Stone-cutting --- Building, Stone --- Stéréotomie --- Pierre --- History --- Taille --- History. --- Mathematics. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Math --- Science --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Stone building --- Stone construction --- Building

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"This book covers the wide spectrum of subjects relating to obtaining and using building stones. The life of a building stone is explained from its origin in the quarry, through its exposure to the elements when used for a building, to its eventual deterioration. The structure of stone buildings is then discussed, with explanations of the mechanics of pillars, lighthouses and walls, arches, bridges, buttresses and roof vaults, plus castles and cathedrals. The book is illustrated with more than 450 diagrams and colour photographs of both the various stones and the associated stone buildings"--

Building, Stone --- Stone buildings --- 691.2 --- Natuursteen --- Buildings, Stone --- Buildings --- Stone building --- Stone construction --- Building --- Bouwmaterialen ; natuursteen --- Construction en pierre. --- Building, Stone. --- Pierre à bâtir. --- Building stones. --- Construction en pierre --- Pierre à bâtir

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Monuments --- Conservation and restoration --- Congresses --- Spain --- Building, Clay --- Building, Stone --- Clay --- Historic buildings --- Stone --- Historic houses, etc. --- Historical buildings --- Stone building --- Stone construction --- Clay building --- Deterioration --- Building materials --- Rocks --- Architecture --- Buildings --- Historic sites --- Aluminum silicates --- Binders (Materials) --- Sediments (Geology) --- Soils --- Building --- Earth construction

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Architecture, Ancient --- Building, Stone --- Architecture antique --- Construction en pierre --- History. --- Histoire --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Civilization --- Kings and rulers --- Civilisation --- Rois et souverains --- Building --- Histoire de l'architecture --- Histoire de la construction --- Palais --- Pyramide --- Temple --- History --- Antiquities --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Construction industry --- Stone building --- Stone construction --- Design and construction --- Antiquities. --- Antiquité égyptienne --- Bâtiment en pyramide --- Building - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Architecture, Ancient - Egypt --- Egypt - Antiquities