Format:
Online-Ressource
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v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Mathematics and Statistics Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1282982699
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9783034604741
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9781282982697
Content:
Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, and much of his literary and social writings are also available in English, his mathematical works are not well represented in readily available, accessible English editions have remained accessible only to specialists. The four treatises included here - Ludi matematici, De Componendis Cifris, Elementi di pittura and De lunularum quadratura - are extremely valuable in rounding out the portrait of this multitalented thinker. The treatises are presented in modern English translations, with commentary that is intended to make evident the depths of Alberti's knowledge as well as address the treatises' mathematical, historical and cultural context, their classical Greek roots, and their relationship to later works by Renaissance thinkers.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Alberti's mathematical works; The treatises in the present edition; Notes on the translations; Acknowledgments; Ex ludis rerummathematicarum; Notes on the Manuscript and Criteria for the Transcription of Galileana 10; Notes on the Translation of Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum; Commentary on Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum; Elements of Painting; Commentary on Elements of Painting; On Writing in Ciphers; Commentary on On Writing in Ciphers; Notes on the Translation of On Writing in Ciphers; ON SQUARING THE LUNE
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On Squaring the Lune¹Commentary on On Squaring the Lune; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary sources; About the authors
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282982397
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783034604734
Language:
English
Subjects:
Mathematics
Keywords:
Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472
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Schrifttum
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Mathematik
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-0346-0474-1
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