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Item Details
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MEASURED WORDS
COMPUTATION AND WRITING IN RENAISSANCE ITALY |
| By: |
Arielle Saiber |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£47.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0802039502 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780802039507 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 2017 |
| Series: |
Toronto Italian Studies |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Measured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. |
| Synopsis: |
Measured Words investigates the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. Arielle Saiber explores the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers: Leon Battista Alberti's treatis on cryptography, Luca Pacioli's ideal proportions for designing Roman capital letters, Niccolo Tartaglia's poem embedding his solution to solving cubic equations, and Giambattista Della Porta's curious study on the elements of geometric curves. Although they came from different social classes and practiced the mathematical and literary arts at differing levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the arts yielded extraordinary results. Through measuring their words, literally and figuratively, they are models of what the very best interdisciplinary work can offer us. |
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Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award 2016 (United States)
Winner of Newberry Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award 2017 (United |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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