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The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (about 1230)
Perpetuum Mobile of Villard de Honnecourt (about 1230)

Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or "sketchbook" containing about 250 drawings and designs of a wide variety of subjects.

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Villard de Honnecourt

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Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only...

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Honnecourt

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Honnecourt may refer to: Villard de Honnecourt, 13th century artist from Picardy, France Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, a commune in the Nord department of France...

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Gimbal

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Little Key of Painting' (mappae clavicula). The French inventor Villard de Honnecourt depicts a set of gimbals in his sketchbook (see right). In the early...

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Medieval technology

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drawings of late-medieval artist-engineers Guido da Vigevano and Villard de Honnecourt can be viewed as forerunners of later Renaissance artist-engineers...

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Verge escapement

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had appeared centuries earlier. There has been speculation that Villard de Honnecourt invented the verge escapement in 1237 with an illustration of a...

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Trebuchet

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Britain, and the Terminology of Its Components in Villard de Honnecourt", The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic...

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Flying buttress

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to the massive, outer walls. By the decade of 1160, architects in the Île-de-France region employed similar lateral-support systems that featured longer...

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History of perpetual motion machines

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drawing of a perpetual motion machine appeared in the sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, a 13th-century French master mason and architect. The sketchbook...

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Square root of 6

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multiples of 15 degrees ( π / 12 {\displaystyle \pi /12} radians). Villard de Honnecourt's 13th century construction of a Gothic "fifth-point arch" with circular...

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Escapement

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tower clocks (although some sources claim that French architect Villard de Honnecourt invented the first escapement around 1237 due to a drawing in his...

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Torsion mangonel myth

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Britain, and the Terminology of Its Components in Villard de Honnecourt", The Worlds of Villard de Honnecourt: The Portfolio, Medieval Technology, and Gothic...

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Ogive

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use of the word ogive is found in the 13th-century sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, from Picardy in northern France. The Oxford English Dictionary...

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Pointed arch

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during the medieval period. Thirteenth-century illustration by Villard de Honnecourt of how different pointed arches can be made from a single curve...

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Clock tower

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tower Minaret Street clock Thirteenth stroke of the clock Noble, Joseph V.; de Solla Price, Derek J. (1968). "The Water Clock in the Tower of the Winds"...

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List of French artists

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Gislebertus (12th century), sculptor Pierre de Montreuil (c. 1200–1266), architect Villard de Honnecourt (13th century), other media Jean Pucelle (active...

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Matthias Church

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shrine and auxiliary shrines were built, under the direction of Villard de Honnecourt. The first stage of the construction of the main church of Buda...

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Automaton

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re-enacted scenes from Hindu mythology. [better source needed] Villard de Honnecourt, in his 1230s sketchbook, depicted an early escapement mechanism...

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History of robots

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12th century Renaissance. The early 13th-century artist-engineer Villard de Honnecourt sketched plans for several automata. At the end of the 13th century...

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Canons of page construction

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Bauhüttenbuch Villard de Honnecourt [A canon for harmonious page division: analysis of a geometric figure in Bauhaus book of Villard de Honnecourt] (in German)...

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Laon Cathedral

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their bases to elaborated octagons at their peaks. Medieval artist Villard de Honnecourt made detailed drawings of one of the towers of Laon circa 1230;...

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Jean Gimpel

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Science, the British affiliate of AVISTA, and the Association de Villard de Honnecourt. Gimpel believed that the basis of sustainable development in the...

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Poleyn

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example of poleyns worn over chausses, from an illustration by Villard de Honnecourt (1230). Ludwig III wearing Gothic plate armor with prominent poleyns...

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Reciprocal frame

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Yasufumi Kijima, and engineer Yoishi Kan (Kijima Stonemason Museum). Villard de Honnecourt produced sketches showing similar designs in the 13th century and...

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Figure drawing

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implied in the writings of Cennino Cennini, and a manuscript of Villard de Honnecourt confirms that sketching from life was an established practice in...

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Lausanne Cathedral

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Lausanne at the time, Guillaume of Champvent. The medieval architect Villard de Honnecourt drew the rose window of the south transept in his sketchbook around...

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