Intersections Between the Architect's Cubit, the Science of Surveying, and Social Practices in CaʿFer Efendi's Seventeenth-Century Book on Ottoman Architecture
In 1614 Caʿfer Efendi devoted four chapters of his book on architecture to the science of surveying. Caʿfer's text is the only extant comprehensive book written by a scholar on the relation between architecture and various forms of knowledge. His sections on surveying have attracted little scho...
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Muqarnas
Year: 2019, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 131-177 |
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early modern intellectual history
B Ethics B judicial codes B Ottoman Architecture B science of surveying B books on architecture B architect's cubit B social practices B architectural theory B history of measurement B Ottoman scholar Caʿfer Efendi B chief architect Mehmed Agha |
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