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Measured words : computation and writing in Renaissance Italy /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Saiber, Arielle (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Collection:Toronto Italian studies.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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).