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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
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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).