From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction
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Part I. Tradition: Ancient Perspectives and Their SurvivalintheEarlyModernEra

2. The Mathematical Path
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3. The Aesthetic Path
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4. New Aesthetic Sensibilities in Italian and French Architecture
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5. The Ancient Concept of Symmetry in Scientific Contexts in Early Modern Times and Its Association with Harmony
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Part II. The Path to Revolution: Symmetry as a Modern Scientific Concept

6. The Treatment of Symmetry in Natural History (1738–1815)
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7. Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): “Revolutions” That Did Not Happen
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8. Legendre’s Revolutionary Definition of Symmetry as a Scientific Concept (1794)
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9. New Applications of Symmetry in Mathematics and Physics: 1788–1815
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