Nexus Network Journal 8,2

Letter from the Editor.- Letter from the Editor.- Arches: Gateways from Science to Culture.- The Arch: Born in the Sewer, Raised to the Heavens.- As Hangs the Flexible Line: Equilibrium of Masonry Arches.- Galileo was Wrong: The Geometrical Design of Masonry Arches.- Gateway to Mathematics Equations of the St. Louis Arch.- Arches and Culture.- Solving Ertha Diggs’s Ancient Stone Arch Mystery.- Other Research.- Mathematical Elements in Historic and Contemporary Architecture.- On Division in Extreme and Mean Ratio and its Connection to a Particular Re-Expression of the Golden Quadratic Equation x2? x? 1 = 0.- Structure of Phenomenological Forms: Morphologic Rhythm.- Book Review.- Serene Greed of the Eye: Leon Battista Alberti and the Philosophical Foundation of Renaissance Architectural Theory.- Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque.- Exhibit Review.- L’uomo del Rinascimento. Leon Battista Alberti e le Arti a Firenze tra Ragione e Bellezza.