: Kim Williams, Lionel March, Stephen R. Wassell
: Kim Williams, Lionel March, Stephen R. Wassell
: The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti
: Birkhäuser Basel
: 9783034604741
: 1
: CHF 45.90
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: Allgemeines, Lexika
: English
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Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, and much of his literary and social writings are also available in English, his mathematical works are not well represented in readily available, accessible English editions have remained accessible only to specialists. The four treatises included here - Ludi matematici, De Componendis Cifris, Elementi di pittura and De lunularum quadratura - are extremely valuable in rounding out the portrait of this multitalented thinker. The treatises are presented in modern English translations, with commentary that is intended to make evident the depths of Alberti's knowledge as well as address the treatises' mathematical, historical and cultural context, their classical Greek roots, and their relationship to later works by Renaissance thinkers.

The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti3
Contents5
Foreword7
Introduction11
Alberti’s mathematical works11
The treatises in the present edition14
Notes on the translations16
Acknowledgments18
Ex ludis rerummathematicarum19
Notes on the Manuscript and Criteria for the Transcription of Galileana 1081
Notes on the Translation of Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum82
Commentary on Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum84
Introductory remarks84
Dedication89
Problem 190
Problem 291
Problem 396
Problem 497
Problem 598
Problem 699
Problem 7102
Problem 8103
Problem 9106
Problem 10107
Problem 11108
Problem 12110
Problem 13115
Problem 14126
Problem 15129
Problem 16131
Problem 17135
Problem 18142
Problem 19143
Problem 20145
Concluding remarks147
Elements of Painting150
Commentary on Elements of Painting162
On Writing in Ciphers178
Commentary on On Writing in Ciphers196
Chapter I196
Chapter II196
Chapter III200
Chapter XII201
Chapter XIII201
Chapter XIII202
Chapter XIV203
Chapter XVI204
Chapter XVII204
Chapter XVIII205
Chapter XIX206
Notes on the Translation of On Writing in Ciphers207
ON SQUARING THE LUNE208
On Squaring the Lune¹209
Commentary on On Squaring the Lune215
Bibliography219
Primary Sources220
Secondary sources223
About the authors227