The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Williams, Kim. (Editor), March, Lionel. (Editor), Wassell, Stephen R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel, 2010.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematics_$xHistory.; History of Mathematics.; Mathematics, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0474-1

Leon Battista Alberti (1404Ơ<U+0013>1472) was a highly prolific polymath of the fifteenth century. Although his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, as are many of his literary and social writings, his mathematical works are n...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents: Foreword (Robert Tavernor)
• Introduction
• Ludi matematici (Mathematical games)
• De Componendis Cifris (On writing in ciphers), Elementi di pittura (Elements of painting)
• De lunularum quadratura (On the squaring of lunes)
• Bibliography
• About the authors.