Flexilinear Language: Giambattista Della Porta's "Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres"
Flexilinear Language: Giambattista Della Porta's "Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres"
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Annali d'Italianistica, Inc
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Annali d'Italianistica, Inc
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The love of spectacle and the spectacular, central to so much of Giambattista Della Porta's work, also appears in his only text dedicated to pure mathematics, the Elementa curvilinea. While the text — with its errors, its unoriginal material, and its claim to have done the impossible, namely, squaring the circle — was treated to a polite silence by...
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Flexilinear Language: Giambattista Della Porta's "Elementorum curvilineorum libri tres"
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TN_cdi_gale_lrcgauss_A182201721
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0741-7527
