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