Measured Words

Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

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Saiber, Arielle

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

280 Seiten

Englisch

University of Toronto Presserschienen am01.06.2021

Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.mehr

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KlappentextMeasured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4875-4195-8

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatTrade Paperback (USA)

Verlag

University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr2021

Erscheinungsdatum01.06.2021

Seiten280 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 154 mm, Höhe 228 mm, Dicke 22 mm

Gewicht406 g

Artikel-Nr.1121046

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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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List of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction: Well-Versed MathematicsThe Four / Beautiful Minds / With Measured Words Chapter One Cryptographica: Leon Battista Alberti´s De componendis Cifris (1466)Deciphering De Cifris / Writing in Code Chapter Two The Calculated Alphabet: Luca Pacioli´s degno alphabeto Anticho (1509)Prelude: Pacioli Portrait / The Nexus of the Divina proportione / Lettergons / Not All That Glitters Is Gold / Divine Characters Chapter Three Word Problems: Niccolò Tartaglia´s Quando chel cubo (1546)The Cubic Scandal / A Poetic Solution Chapter Four Hidden Curves: Giambattista Della Porta´s Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres (1601/10)The Vanishing Act / A Wave of the Hand Notes BibliographyIndexmehr