Measured words : computation and writing in Renaissance Italy /

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Measured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. Arielle Saiber explores the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers: Leon Battista Alberti's trea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Saiber, Arielle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
1268-1789
Mathematics > Italy > History > 15th century.
Mathematics > Italy > History > 16th century.
Mathematical literature > Italy > History > 15th century.
Mathematical literature > Italy > History > 16th century.
Science and the humanities > Italy > History > 15th century.
Science and the humanities > Italy > History > 16th century.
Mathématiques > Italie > Histoire > 15e siècle.
Mathématiques > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Mathématiques > Documentation > Italie > Histoire > 15e siècle.
Mathématiques > Documentation > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Sciences et sciences humaines > Italie > Histoire > 15e siècle.
Sciences et sciences humaines > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
Intellectual life.
Mathematical literature.
Mathematics.
Science and the humanities.
Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559.
Italy > Intellectual life > 1559-1789.
Italie > Vie intellectuelle > 1268-1559.
Italie > Vie intellectuelle > 1559-1789.
Italy.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Well-versed mathematics
  • Cryptographica : Leon Battista Alberti's De componendis Cifris (1466)
  • The calculated alphabet : Luca Pacioli's "degno alphabeto Anticho" (1509)
  • Word problems : Niccolò Tartaglia's "Quando chel cubo" (1546)
  • Hidden curves : Giambattista Della Porta's Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres (1601/10).

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