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September 9, 2008
Hermann Schlimme, ed. Practice and Science in Early Modern Italian Building: Towards an Epistemic History of Architecture Milan: Electa, 2005. 314 pp.; 36 color ills.; 300 b/w ills. Cloth €75.00 (8837042361)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.91

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This edited volume is the initial product of a joint research project undertaken by scholars at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. The “Epistemic History of Architecture” aims to promote a series of conferences on the theme of architecture as a historical form of “knowledge.” The group’s primary object of study is not the building itself but rather...