Arielle Saiber

Measured Words

Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781487541958
• ISBN-10: 1487541953
• Artikelnr.: 61214486

Autorenporträt

Arielle Saiber is a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Well-Versed Mathematics
The 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
Bibliography
Index