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CHAPTER TWO. The Calculated Alphabet: Luca Pacioli’s “degno alphabeto Anticho” (1509)
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: Well-Versed Mathematics 3
- CHAPTER ONE. Cryptographica: Leon Battista Alberti’s De componendis Cifris (1466) 21
- CHAPTER TWO. The Calculated Alphabet: Luca Pacioli’s “degno alphabeto Anticho” (1509) 49
- CHAPTER THREE. Word Problems: Niccolò Tartaglia’s “Quando chel cubo” (1546) 109
- CHAPTER FOUR. Hidden Curves: Giambattista Della Porta’s Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres (1601/10) 137
- Notes 175
- Bibliography 215
- Index 247
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction: Well-Versed Mathematics 3
- CHAPTER ONE. Cryptographica: Leon Battista Alberti’s De componendis Cifris (1466) 21
- CHAPTER TWO. The Calculated Alphabet: Luca Pacioli’s “degno alphabeto Anticho” (1509) 49
- CHAPTER THREE. Word Problems: Niccolò Tartaglia’s “Quando chel cubo” (1546) 109
- CHAPTER FOUR. Hidden Curves: Giambattista Della Porta’s Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres (1601/10) 137
- Notes 175
- Bibliography 215
- Index 247
