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Leon Battista Alberti (1404¬–1472) Was A Highly Prolific Polymath Of The Fifteenth Century. Although His Contributions To Architecture And The Visual Arts Are Well Known And Available In Good English Editions, As Are Many Of His Literary And Social Writings, His Mathematical Works Are Not Well Represented. This Present Volume Was Planned To Fill That Gap, With Entirely New English Translations And Critical Commentaries Making The Works Easily Accessible For A Wide Readership Of Specialists And Non-specialists Alike. Four Texts Are Included Here. Although Alberti’s Commentarii Rerum Mathematicarum Appears To Be Lost, We Have His Ludi Matematici . In These “games” Alberti Describes Twenty Practical Applications Of Mathematics In An Accessible Style. The Translation Is Accompanied By A New Transcript Of The Recently Identified Manuscript Held In The National Library In Florence Upon Which It Was Based. In Elementi Di Pittura, Alberti Provides A Catalogue Of Definitions And Geometric Constructions, Using Euclidean References But Drawing A Distinction Between Theoria Of Mathematical Entities And Praxis Of Painterly Applications. Alberti’s Most Original Mathematical Contribution Is A Lat

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Author

Arch. Kim Williams, Prof. Lionel March (auth.), Kim Williams, Lionel March, Stephen R. Wassell (eds.)

Publisher

Birkhäuser; Springer Basel

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612982699

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Philosophy, Stem