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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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Toronto Italian studies
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Toronto Italian studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 treatis on cryptography, Luca Pacioli's ideal proportions for designing Roman capital letters, Niccolò Tartaglia's poem embedding his solution to solving cubic equations, and Giambattista Della Porta's curious study on the elements of geometric curves. Although they came from different social classes and practiced the mathematical and literary arts at differing levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the arts yielded extraordinary results. Through measuring their words, literally and figuratively, they are models of what the very best interdisciplinary work can offer us. |
| 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). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mathematics -- Italy -- History -- 15th century.
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Mathematics. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
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15th century |
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Mathematics -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
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16th century |
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Mathematical literature -- Italy -- History -- 15th century.
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Mathematical literature. |
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Mathematical literature -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
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Science and the humanities -- Italy -- History -- 15th century.
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Science and the humanities -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
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1268-1559 |
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1559-1789.
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1559-1789 |
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MATHEMATICS -- Essays. |
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Science and the humanities. |
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MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus. |
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Intellectual life. |
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MATHEMATICS -- Reference. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. |
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1268-1789 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saiber, Arielle. Measured words. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] 0802039502 9780802039507 (OCoLC)946293191 |
| ISBN |
9781487513306 (electronic book) |
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1487513305 (electronic book) |
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9780802039507 |
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0802039502 |
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