One of Englands most respected and influential architects; James Gibbs was born in Scotland; studied in Rome; and left a legacy of design the world will treasure forever. His legendary 1728 folio; a sprawling gallery of Gibbss magnificent drawings; perspectives; and blueprints; is a brilliant testimony to his remarkable talent. Profusely illustrated; the volume features such notable commissions as Londons St. Martin in the Fields mdash; the inspiration for many steeple churches of the colonial period in America; St. Mary le Strand; his first public building; Marybone Chapel; The Church of Allhallows in Derby; plus Gibbss first commission; an addition for Kings College at Cambridge. His most outstanding accomplishment may be the circular Radcliffe Library at Oxford; for which he received a Master of Arts. Also included here are detailed floor plans; plus fine drawings of decorative marble cisterns; ornamental iron gates; stately funeral monuments; and much more. Essential for an understanding of classic architecture; this stunning edition should grace the bookshelf of every architect; as well as architectural students; teachers; and historians.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Exhaustive review and thesisBy SankhmmrCorinna Rossis book is a thorough review of the many theories about the logic behind the construction of ancient Kmts (i.e. Egypts) pyramids. Because Rossi is writing from the point of view of an academic proof; most of the book is an exposition of these theories; then a consideration of the proof; and then a conclusion drawn about the theory. This is interesting stuff. However; if what you wanted was a deep dive into what the Kmtians really were up to then all you need to know is the Seked; according to Rossi.Check out the book from a university library if you want the arguments. Otherwise; save yourself some money and look up seked on a search engine.18 of 34 people found the following review helpful. Cambridges normal skeptical viewBy MiloSeveral reviews of this book; published elsewhere; stressthe contents of Rossis analysis were more focused towardthe skeptical side of Egyptian math and construction methods.Rossi; therefore is being fairly depicted as publishing new information within unproven paradigms.On the math side; Rossi mentions Fibonaccis algorithmand phi; two paradigms that clearly were not used in ancientEgypt; though many like to suggest that they were. TheFibonacci algorithm idea was introduced after 1891 and J.J.Sylvesters skeptical views of the RMPs 2/nth table; arereference point to 1202 AD and the Liber Abaci; but nota reference point of Egypt. Egypt used more subtle ideaslike [...] and [...] .Yet; Hultsch in 1895 clearly showed that Ahmes in 1650 BCeasily wrote out 2/p series into short and concise unitfraction series using a very simple partitioning method(as Ahmes wrote out n/p answers in his false positionalgebra problems; ie. 5/19 written out in a long awkwardseries using 1/12th as the first partition; as he did for 2/19;as describe a couple paragraphs below. Ahmes wrote 5/19per; 5/19 - 1/12 = (60 - 19)/(12*19) = (38 + 2 + 1)/(12*19)or; 5/19 = 1/6 + 1/12 + 1/114 + 1/228).Clearly modern scholars (two being Robins-Shute) have often suggested that false supposition was used by Ahmes; hintingthat Ahmes guessed at his answers. Ahmes never guessed! Ahmesanswers were always exact when he worked with rational numbers.Moderm scholars were the ones that had guessed; and missed; finding Ahmes deeper methods. Interestingly no scholar; untilvery recently; has claimed to have read Ahmes shorthandnotes. Modern scholars had sadly filled inlogical gaps leftby Ahmes with their own intellectual guesses - many of whichhave been proven to be wrong (as Rossi had not learned; sincehe referenced none of the controversial Eguptian fraction and weights and measures issues).Bruins also discovered the Hultsch method in 1945; and todaythe method is named the Hultsch-Bruin method. It says that2/p = 1/A + (2A -p)/Apwhere A; a highly divisible number selected in the range p/2 < A < pwith the divisors of A uniquely added to (2A -p)thereby solving (2A-p)/Ap.Example;2/19 = 1/12 + (24 -19)/(12*19) = 1/12 + (3 + 2)/(12*19) = 1/12 + 1/76 + 1/114with the (4 + 1) alternative being discardedsince its last denominator was too large.Rossi also mentions that Egyptian division may have followedan inverse operation of its multiplication doubling method.Here also Rossi did not seen the simple remainder arithmeticfound in RMP #62 where 100/13 = 7 + 9/13 = 7 + 2/3 + 1/39.Generally Ahmes and all scribes divided by this Q = quotientand R = remainder method. The Akhmim Wooden Tablet evenshows a special method for grain and volume division wherea hekat unity 64/64 was divided by n; with n < 64; as(64/64)/n = Q/64 + R/(n*64)Even more interesting; Ahmes also used this method todivide 100 hekat by 70; with his final form matchingthe Akhmim Wooden tablets special use of ro = 1/320thof a hekat; by:(6400/64)/70 = 91/64 + 30/(70*64)and introducing ro = 1/320 of a hekat; = (1 +16 + 8+ 2 + 1)/64 = (150/70)* 1/320 = 1+ 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/32+ 1/64 + (2 + 1/7)*roIll not go on and discuss Rossi view of Egyptianarchitecture being the above her standard Cambridgeskeptical comments.Overall; many accept Rossis view as informative;and I do as well; in limited areas. However; on themath side of Rossis quick use of a Sylvesters andother recent skeptical techniques; all disproven years ago;shows that her Cambridge training needs to be expandedto read the Egyptian mathematical texts. Clearly Ahmesand his brother/sister scribes are the only expertsthat should guide our understanding of Egyptian math.