TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hon,Giora
AU  - Goldstein,Bernard R.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
T2  - Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
SN  - 9781402084485
AV  - D1-DX301 
U1  - 509 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - History
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Physics
KW  - History of Science
KW  - Philosophy of Science
KW  - History of Mathematical Sciences
KW  - History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
KW  - Architectural History and Theory
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Tradition: Ancient Perspectives and Their SurvivalintheEarlyModernEra -- The Mathematical Path -- The Aesthetic Path -- New Aesthetic Sensibilities in Italian and French Architecture -- The Ancient Concept of Symmetry in Scientific Contexts in Early Modern Times and Its Association with Harmony -- The Path to Revolution: Symmetry as a Modern Scientific Concept -- The Treatment of Symmetry in Natural History (1738–1815) -- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): “Revolutions” That Did Not Happen -- Legendre’s Revolutionary Definition of Symmetry as a Scientific Concept (1794) -- New Applications of Symmetry in Mathematics and Physics: 1788–1815
N2  - The concept of symmetry is inherent to modern science, and its evolution has a complex history that richly exemplifies the dynamics of scientific change. This study is based on primary sources, presented in context: the authors examine closely the trajectory of the concept in the mathematical and scientific disciplines as well as its trajectory in art and architecture. The principal goal is to demonstrate that, despite the variety of usages in many different domains, there is a conceptual unity underlying the invocation of symmetry in the period from antiquity to the 1790s which is distinct from the scientific usages of this term that first emerged in France at the end of the 18th century. The key figure in revolutionizing the concept of symmetry is the mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre. His achievements in solid geometry (1794) are contrasted with the views of the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, on the directionality of space (1768)
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