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The book L’ART D’APPAREIL was written for architects and contains many geometric drawings. That’s why I first searched for a book in the Xenotheka Library under the Topic of Conversation ‘Architecture’ with the keywords geometrical drawing and art. A book with the title ‘The Sympathy Of Things’ caught my eye, this title reminded me of…

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Nachdem ich mich schlau über Alice und ihre Funktion gemacht habe, habe ich Wörter die mein Buch «Dispareri in materia d’architettura, et perspettiva» besonders prägen in die Suche bei Alice eingegeben. Darunter waren Wörter wie: Church architecture, plans, drawing, Milano und natürlich wie der Buchtitel preisgibt nach perspective gesucht. Für die Art der Gehirne habe…

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Noé Bugnon To find works related to that of Salomon de Caus, it was necessary to look at theoretical books, of very concrete learning. In “La Perspective”, we learn how to draw everyday objects. I used the terms draw, perspective, architecture, learn, etc. and the brain “Xenotheka Library”, certainly the most complete concerning treaties on…

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As I explored the relationships and connections of my book “A complete body of architecture” by Isaac Ware, I looked for content that my book holds with other books, across space and time. To do so, I adopted the digital library of Xenotheka. I explored this universe of connections with Alice, a special search engine of Xenotheka…

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For this task I’ve chosen the following themes of my book „Descrizione e studj dell’insigne fabbrica di S. Maria del Fiore“ written in 1733 by Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli. Dome Architecture Fiorentina Drawings Evolution Toscana Piazza Evolution Religion Now I have searched for the following with the help of “Alice’s brains“: Architecture’s library and Xenotheka’s library….

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The book I “got to know” during the last two deliveries is “De sacris aedificiis a Constantino magno constructis“. As we have already seen, it deals mainly with the sacred buildings of Constantine the Great. Moreover, it is a book that was published in Latin in 1693. I decided to start with this information to…

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Since my book is called ‘theory of perspective demonstrated’, I thought it was only logical to have my first search be ‘perspective’. For this I used the Xenotheka library and choose theory as my topic of conversation. This combination proved to have over 10000 results, many being very interesting. The first book I chose to…

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Before I started my search with Alice, I wanted to understand how this website works. I realized that there are 3 lines where keywords can be typed in – a topic of conversation, Alice’s brain and what the search should be about.  There are two main terms that I instantly think about when it comes…

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To find similar Books to my “Del Palazzo de Cesari” I used the software, Alice. I started my search by setting the text to “roman temple” and the brain setting to “antique”. The software Alice then showed me a lot of different and interesting books on that exact topic. That’s how I found my first…