IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB001510320

Mathematician in Architecture (2011)

Taheri, Jafar (Author)

Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Volume: 9, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 39-65

URL: https://jihs.ut.ac.ir/article_29084_2983.html

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Persian.
Language: Persian

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Architecture Mathematics Astronomy Crafts and craftspeople Arithmetic Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture 10th century 11th century 17th century Early modern

Real Mathematicians contribution to architecture creation has been a controversial issue of scientific and architectural studies in Islamic era. According to the related documents, with development of constructive activities and need to mathematics in the first centuries, mathematicians give architects and craftsmen advices in some mathematical problems. Mathematicians, supervision of some government buildings, became the mediators of applying more precious mathematics among those involved in architecture and handcrafts till 4th /10th century. Since 5th/11th century, the architects' mathematical knowledge increased as well as their crucial role of them strengthens. It was the same time that mathematicians `role impressively decreased except in practical use of arithmetic in construction (hisab-i abniya). This paper presents a descriptive model of mathematicians' role and their mathematical applications in the process of architectural development with regard to historical documents from 2th to 11th century. The model indicates that in the first centuries, mathematicians despite participating in the urban design and planning, water structures, hisab i abniya and use of astronomy in architecture, didn't have any significant role in architectural design and creating geometric patterns during this era.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001510320/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Irueste, Fernando Girón; (2001)
Medicina y Ciencia en al-Andalus (/isis/citation/CBB000102472/)

Article Fennane, Khalid Bouzoubaâ; (2003)
Réflexions sur le principe de continuité à partir du commentaire d'ibn al-Haythem sur la proposition 1.7 Des Éléments d'Euclide (/isis/citation/CBB000340503/)

Book Rashed, Roshdi; (2000)
Les mathématiques infinitésimales du IXe au XIe siècle: théorie des coniques, constructions géométriques et géométrie pratique. Vol. 3: Ibn al-Haytham (/isis/citation/CBB000774771/)

Book Rashed, Roshdi; (2006)
Ibn al-Haytham: Astronomie, géométrie sphérique et trigonométrie (/isis/citation/CBB001024095/)

Chapter Djebbar, Ahmed; (2008)
La géométrie du mesurage et du découpage dans les mathématiques d'Al-Andalus (Xe--XIIIe s.) (/isis/citation/CBB000952196/)

Essay Review Michel, Alain; (2003)
Géométrie et philosophie: De Thābit ibn Qurra à ibn al-Haytham (/isis/citation/CBB000340511/)

Article Taheri, Jafar; Nadimi, Hadi; (2013)
Re-appraisal of the Legacy of Abū al-Wafā Būzjānī in Art and Architecture (/isis/citation/CBB001510303/)

Chapter de Blois, François; (2014)
Some Early Islamic and Christian Sources Regarding the Jewish Calendar (9th--11th Centuries) (/isis/citation/CBB001213978/)

Book Rashed, Roshdi; (2002)
Les mathématiques infinitésimales du IXe au XIe siècle (/isis/citation/CBB000201520/)

Article Janos, Damien; (2011)
Moving the Orbs: Astronomy, Physics, and Metaphysics, and the Problem of Celestial Motion according to Ibn Sīnā (/isis/citation/CBB001220526/)

Article Schramm, Matthias; Albert, Carl-Philipp; Schütz, Michael; brunold, Martin; Germann, Martin; (2006-2007)
Der Astrolabtext aus der Handschrift Codex 196, Bürgerbibliothek Bern---Spuren arabischer Wissenschaft im mittelalterlichen Abendland (/isis/citation/CBB001024031/)

Book Borrelli, Arianna; (2008)
Aspects of the Astrolabe: “Architectonica Ratio” in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Europe (/isis/citation/CBB000953090/)

Article Mozaffari, S. Mohammad; (2013)
Bīrūnī's Four-point Method for Determining the Eccentricity and the Direction of the Apsidal Lines of the Superior Planets (/isis/citation/CBB001200858/)

Article Bagheri, M.; (2008)
Kūshyār ibn Labbān's Accounts of Calendars in His Jāmiʿ Zīj (/isis/citation/CBB001023849/)

Chapter Ragep, F. Jamil; (2010)
The Khilāṣ kayfiyyat tarkīb al-aflāk of al-Jūzjānī: A Preliminary Description of its Avicennian Themes (/isis/citation/CBB001021937/)

Article Vahabzadeh, Bijan; (2013)
Le commentaire d'Ibn Mu'Ā sur le concept de rapport (/isis/citation/CBB001321035/)

Article Rashed, Roshdi; Papadopoulos, Athanase; (2014)
On Menelaus' Spherics III.5 in Arabic Mathematics, I: Ibn 'Irāq (/isis/citation/CBB001321037/)

Article Houzel, Christian; (2009)
The New Astronomy of Ibn Al-Haytham (/isis/citation/CBB000931198/)

Article Matthew Melvin-Koushki; (2017)
Powers of One: The Mathematicalization of the Occult Sciences in the High Persianate Tradition (/isis/citation/CBB814580335/)

Article Moussa, Ali; (2011)
Mathematical Methods in Abu Al-Wafa's Almagest and the Qibla Determinations (/isis/citation/CBB001033814/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}