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Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh
| Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh |
| Autore | Wardhaugh Benjamin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) : 34 b/w illus |
| Disciplina | 516.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Geometry
Mathematics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Early works. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred North Whitehead
Baruch Spinoza Bodleian Library Copernicus Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclidean geometry Galileo Galilei Galileo Hobbes Johannes Kepler Kepler Platonic solids Proclus Ptolemaic Egypt Pythagorean theorem Spinoza Thales' theorem Thomas Hobbes Vatican Library book history geometric algebra golden ratio great books history of math history of mathematics history of the book lemma logic mathematical proofs music theory parallel postulate perspective plane geometry prime numbers |
| ISBN | 0-691-21981-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- I: AUTHOR -- Alexandria -- Elephantine -- Hypsicles -- Theon of Alexandria -- Stephanos the scribe -- Al-Hajjaj -- Adelard -- Erhard Ratdolt -- Marget Seymer her hand -- Edward Bernard -- Interlude -- II: SAGE -- Plato -- Proclus Diadochus -- Hroswitha of Gandersheim -- Rabbi Levi ben Gershom -- Christoph Clavius -- Xu Guangqi -- Blame not our author -- Baruch Spinoza -- Anne Lister -- Interlude -- III: HERO -- Petechonsis -- Dividing the monochord -- Hyginus -- Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani -- Lady Geometria -- Piero della Francesca -- Euclid Speidell -- Isaac Newton -- Interlude -- IV: SHADOW AND MASK -- Mary Fairfax -- François Peyrard -- Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii -- Maggie and Tom -- Simson in Urdu -- His modern rivals -- Thomas Little Heath -- Max Ernst -- Euclidean designs -- Lambda -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Notes on Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554265903321 |
Wardhaugh Benjamin
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| Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
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Power and religion in Baroque Rome : Barberini cultural policies / / by Peter Rietbergen
| Power and religion in Baroque Rome : Barberini cultural policies / / by Peter Rietbergen |
| Autore | Rietbergen P. J. A. N. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 437 pages) : digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 945.63207 |
| Collana | Brill's studies in intellectual history |
| Soggetto topico | Papacy - History - 1566-1799 |
| Soggetto non controllato |
History
Early Modern History Barberini family Cardinal (Catholic Church) Gigli Pope Rome Vatican Library |
| ISBN | 90-474-1795-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: When the bees flew -- Prologue: Giacinto Gigli, chronicler, or: power in the streets of Rome -- Chapter One: The Barberini build a chapel, or: rising to power in post-Tridentine Rome -- Chapter Two: Maffeo Barberini-Urban VIII, the Poet-Pope, or: the power of poetic propaganda -- Chapter Three: The ‘Days and Works’ of Francesco, Cardinal Barberini, or: how to be a powerful cardinal-padrone? -- Chapter Four: Prince Eckembergh comes to dinner, or: power through culinary ceremony -- Chapter Five: The Bare Feet of St Augustine, or: the power of religious images -- Chapter Six: Lucas Holste (1596–1661), scholar and librarian, or: the power of books and libraries -- Chapter Seven: Ibrahim al-Hakilani (1605–1664), or: the power of scholarship and publishing -- Chapter Eight: Urban VIII between White Magic and Black Magic, or: holy and unholy power -- Epilogue: The Return of the Muses: Instruments of cultural policy in Barberini Rome, 1623–1644 -- Conclusion: “L’età fortunata del Mele”, or ‘Honey’s Happy Age’: The Barberini pontificate as a generation, a crossroads—problems of perspective -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910169179603321 |
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Rietbergen P. J. A. N.
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| Brill, 2005 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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