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Le Brouillon de Stéréotomie de Desargues et sa Revendication d'Universalité

2023

Abstract

Un an après le Brouillon des Rencontres d’un Cône avec un Plan de 1639, Desargues publie un Brouillon … de Coupe des Pierres … que le titre présente comme une manière universelle. Et pourtant, à le lire en détail, ce Brouillon de Stéréotomie ne fait appel à aucun des concepts de la géométrie projective en gestation qui devait fournir des méthodes communes aux disciplines pratiques que sont la perspective, la stéréotomie et la gnomonique, toutes 3 évoquées dans ce titre. Notre commentaire tâche de rendre compte des méthodes originales développées par Desargues dans ce texte très compact et difficile d’accès, pour évaluer ensuite, dans quelle mesure le système des essieux rabattus sur le seul plan d’un mur en talus peut conserver quelque prétention à une universalité restreinte.

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2023

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/8fa539b7-28e6-4566-a65f-e951b06cc661

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