Gothic construction and the Traça of a heptagonal apse: the problem of the heptagon

DOI10.1007/s00004-013-0152-xzbMath1298.00064OpenAlexW2090499027MaRDI QIDQ468393

Agustí Costa Jover, Gerard Fortuny Anguera, Pau de Sola-Morales Serra, Josep Lluis i. Ginovart

Publication date: 6 November 2014

Published in: Nexus Network Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-013-0152-x

zbMATH Keywords

geometryproportioncathedralsgeometric systemsheptagonhistorical treatiserule-based architecturesacred geometryTortosa Cathedral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and architecture (00A67)

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