CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Colour Plates I-LII -- Introduction -- Chapter One Shape Creation Knowledge in Civil and Naval Architecture (Horst Nowacki) -- ANTIQUITY -- Chapter Two On the Use of Design in Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction (Patrice Pomey) -- Chapter Three Were the Hittites Able to Build a Replica of an Egyptian Ship According to Their Own Drawings? (Lucien Basch Reply to Lucien Basch by Patrice Pomey) -- Chapter Four Markings and Pegs: Clues to Geometrical Procedures of Roman Naval Architecture? (Ronald Bockius) -- Chapter Five Ancient Greek and Roman Architects' Approach to Curvature-The Corinthian Capital, Entasis and Amphitheaters (Mark Wilson Jones) -- MIDDLE AGES -- Chapter Six "To Design" and "to Build" Mediaeval Ships (Fift h to Fift eenth Centuries)-The Application of Knowledge Held in Common with Civil Architecture, or in Isolation? (Eric Rieth) -- Chapter Seven Boat and Boat House. The Conceptional Origins of Clinker Boats and Boat-Shaped Halls of the Fourth to Eleventh Centuries in Scandinavia (Ole Crumlin-Pedersen) -- Chapter Eight Gothic and Renaissance Design Strategies in Stonecutting (Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López) -- Chapter Nine On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry (Jos Tomlow) -- MODERN ERA -- Chapter Ten The Shipbuilding Text of Michael of Rhodes (David McGee) -- Chapter Eleven Naval Architecture Digitalized Introducing Arithmetic and Geometry into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry (Ulrich Alertz) -- Chapter Twelve Pregnant Columns. From Word to Shape (Antonio Becchi) -- Chapter Thirteen From One Curve to Another or the Problem of Changing Coordinates in Stereotomic Layouts (Joël Sakarovitch) -- Chapter Fourteen The Squinch of Anet (Martina Lenz) -- Conclusions -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A From Words to Technical Practices: Moulds and Naval Architecture in the Middle Ages (Eric Rieth).

Appendix B The Rare Traces of Constructional Procedures in "Practical Geometries" (Jens Høyrup) -- Appendix C Draughting Curves Used in Ship Design (Jobst Lessenich) -- Appendix D Bibliographical Notes on Historical Metrology (Compiled by Jobst Lessenich) -- Index.