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Open AccessYou just want a break from the hatred of failure: the lived experience of being a student physiotherapist perfectionist and considerations for educators
Perfectionism is a personality orientation associated with mental health and adjustment problems. Recent evidence demonstrates that perfectionism is widespread among students and on the rise, with recent gener...
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Open AccessSystem interventions to support rural access to maternity care: an analysis of the rural surgical obstetrical networks program
The Rural Surgical Obstetrical Networks (RSON) project was developed in response to the persistent attrition of rural maternity services across Canada over the past two decades. While other research has demons...
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Open AccessSilvio Belli’s On Ratio and Proportion
This is the English translation of the treatise on ratio and proportion published by the Vicentine engineer Silvio Belli in 1573. In it the author aims to present the material, which was the object of much stu...
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Book Series
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Daniele Barbaro and the University of Padova
Architecture, Art and Science on the Occasion of the 450th Anniversary of His Death
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Daniele Barbaro and the Science of Mathematics
Daniele Barbaro is an interesting figure not only because he was working at a time which there was an ongoing debate that led to precisely a revolution in the sciences, but also because he was also formed in t...
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Guiding the New, Revealing the Old
Editor-in-Chief Kim Williams discusses the versatility and range of tools used in exploring questions of form-finding, both ancient and modern, and introduces the articles in Nexus Network Journal vol. 24 no. 4 (...
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Form-Finding, Architecture and Mathematics
Editor-in-Chief Kim Williams discusses the versatility and range of tools used in exploring questions of form-finding both ancient and modern, and introduces the articles in Nexus Network Journal vol. 24no. 1 (20...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Food Drop-Off Box of the Future
We show how recent technologies could be combined to enable contactless, secure, asynchronous, and convenient food delivery, by solving the last-mile/last-hour problem with a food drop-off box that keeps deliv...
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The Building Blocks of Architecture and Mathematics
Editor-in-Chief Kim Williams examines the sometimes very sophisticated use of fundamental mathematical elements—curves, grids, simple polygons and polyhedra—in ancient and contemporary architecture and introdu...
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New Light on Ancient Architecture and Mathematics
Editor-in-Chief Kim Williams examines the way intersections of architecture and mathematics in ancient architecture are being brought to light thanks to increased information and new technologies, and introduc...
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Correction to: Drying microclimates threaten persistence of natural and translocated populations of threatened frogs
In the original publication of the article, Figure 1 was published incorrectly. The correct figure is given below. The original article has been corrected.
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Chapter
Daniele Barbaro, The Practice of Perspective
Magnificent and excellent brother, our studies having been shared for many of our years under the care of good preceptors, and the knot of friendship between us having been tied by the virtue of honest and thu...
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Part VI, which is called Planispherio
A fine, ingenious and useful invention was that of the ancients for casting the points and circles of the sphere onto planes with proportion and correspondence of ratios, because its demonstrations were of the...
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Part VII, which treats lighting, shadows and colours
There is no doubt at all that the power of perspective depends on the nature of the angles, and that the appearance of things changes when the centre and the eye change, and that it is not sufficient for the e...
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Part IX, in which are described many instruments and ways of rendering and transporting things in perspective
The half-sphere is used to make sun clocks in various planes, but that serves us for only one elevation. We have imagined an instrument that is not only a clock in itself, but is also an instrument for making ...
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Part V, in which is set forth a fine and secret part of perspective
Many times, with no less delight than marvel, are seen some panels or sheets of perspective in which, when the viewer’s eye is not placed in a determined point, what appears is something other than that which ...
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Part VIII, in which are treated the measures of the human body
The human body has by various persons been measured variously. Some have regarded the larger parts; others the smaller parts.
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Kim Williams, Daniele Barbaro and the Geometric Solids
When Barbaro alludes to his forthcoming treatise on perspective in his commentary on Vitruvius, it is to make two promises: to explain the ways in which perspective interweaves two distinct sciences – geometry...
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Part II, in which are treated ichnographia, that is, the description of the plan
Before I come to describe plans, it is necessary to practice the way of describing the figures called ‘polygons’, that is, those having many equal angles and sides circumscribed by a circle. So, the descriptio...
