{"product_id":"measured-words-computation-and-writing-in-renaissance-italy-paperback-softback-9781487541958","title":"Measured Words; Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487541958","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMeasured Words\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eComputation and Writing in Renaissance Italy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eArielle Saiber (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487541958\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 131 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Together with her lively writing style, Saiber\u0026amp;#x2019;s erudition, based on close reading of primary sources and a remarkable command of secondary literatures, make \u003ci\u003eMeasured Words\u003c\/i\u003e a pleasure to read. Scholars will return to this book for research leads and for chapters to assign to their graduate and undergraduate students.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Renzo Baldasso (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\"The author connects to mathematics in many fascinating ways. In addition to the superb analysis of four case studies – Alberti, Paciolo, Tartaglia, and Della Porta, the reader is treated to an assortment of images that help visualize the connection each Renaissance man imagined. Highly recommended.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - T. Timmons (Choice Magazine vol 55:11:2018) \u003cp\u003e\"Boldly and magisterially, Saiber bridges the gap between literary studies, Renaissance philosophy, the sciences of \u003ci\u003ecomputus\u003c\/i\u003e (of numbers and proportions or geometry in theory and practice), and the history of printing and type design. With her remarkable stamina to explore rarely studied 'difficult' texts, and with her admirable command of older and more recent scholarly literature on her topic, Saiber thereby demonstrates for instance the intimate relationship between the advent of printing and the designer\u0026amp;#x2019;s task of mathematical proportions of letters – and the ensuing interdependent relationships between form and text.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Sergius Kodera, New Design University (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance and Reformation\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMeasured Words \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista Della Porta.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough these Renaissance humanists came from different social classes and practised the mathematical and literary arts at varying 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 literary arts and mathematics yielded extraordinary results, from Alberti\u0026amp;#x2019;s treatise on cryptography and Pacioli\u0026amp;#x2019;s design calculations for the Roman alphabet to Tartaglia\u0026amp;#x2019;s poetic solutions of cubic equations and Della Porta\u0026amp;#x2019;s dramatic applications of geometry. Through lively, cogent analysis of these and other related texts of the period, \u003ci\u003eMeasured Words\u003c\/i\u003e presents, literally and figuratively, brilliant examples of what interdisciplinary work can offer us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Well-Versed Mathematics\u003cbr\u003eThe Four \/ Beautiful Minds \/ With Measured Words \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter One \u003cbr\u003eCryptographica: Leon Battista Alberti\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eDe componendis Cifris\u003c\/em\u003e (1466)\u003cbr\u003eDeciphering \u003cem\u003eDe Cifris\u003c\/em\u003e \/ Writing in Code \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two \u003cbr\u003eThe Calculated Alphabet: Luca Pacioli\u0026amp;#x2019;s \"degno alphabeto Anticho\" (1509)\u003cbr\u003ePrelude: Pacioli Portrait \/ The Nexus of the \u003cem\u003eDivina proportione\u003c\/em\u003e \/ Lettergons \/ Not All That Glitters Is Gold \/ Divine Characters \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three \u003cbr\u003eWord Problems: Niccolò Tartaglia\u0026amp;#x2019;s \"Quando chel cubo\" (1546)\u003cbr\u003eThe Cubic Scandal \/ A Poetic Solution \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four \u003cbr\u003eHidden Curves: Giambattista Della Porta\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eElementorum curvilineorum libri tres\u003c\/em\u003e (1601\/10)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vanishing Act \/ A Wave of the Hand \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595786481944,"sku":"9781487541958","price":22.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/measured-words-computation-and-writing-in-renaissance-italy-paperback-softback-9781487541958","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}