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Muqarnas, Interlacing-Arch Construction & Menelaus’ Spherics
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0003-7336-7938
Hypothesis of muqarnas-emergence as cultural indicator in Abbasid Baghdad context of: philosophical mathematization of creation project; the spherical triangular geometry of Menelaus’ Spherics correlated with the analogous form of interlacing arch dome webs; and al-Farabi’s expression of need to invent images, mutakhayalāt, to satisfy “the souls of the multitude.”
Muqarnas, Interlacing-Arch Construction & Menelaus’ Spherics
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0003-7336-7938
Hypothesis of muqarnas-emergence as cultural indicator in Abbasid Baghdad context of: philosophical mathematization of creation project; the spherical triangular geometry of Menelaus’ Spherics correlated with the analogous form of interlacing arch dome webs; and al-Farabi’s expression of need to invent images, mutakhayalāt, to satisfy “the souls of the multitude.”
Muqarnas, Interlacing-Arch Construction & Menelaus’ Spherics
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0009-0003-7336-7938
Hypothesis of muqarnas-emergence as cultural indicator in Abbasid Baghdad context of: philosophical mathematization of creation project; the spherical triangular geometry of Menelaus’ Spherics correlated with the analogous form of interlacing arch dome webs; and al-Farabi’s expression of need to invent images, mutakhayalāt, to satisfy “the souls of the multitude.”
Muqarnas, Interlacing-Arch Construction & Menelaus’ Spherics
Nexus Netw J
Brotherton, Richard (author)
Nexus Network Journal ; 25 ; 159-163
2023-06-01
5 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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