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Author: Arielle Saiber
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.400kg
ISBN: 9781487541958
ISBN 10: 1487541953
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 01 June 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Together with her lively writing style, Saiber’s erudition, based on close reading of primary sources and a remarkable command of secondary literatures, make Measured Words a pleasure to read. Scholars will return to this book for research leads and for chapters to assign to their graduate and undergraduate students."" - Renzo Baldasso (Renaissance Quarterly) ""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."" - T. Timmons (Choice Magazine vol 55:11:2018) ""Boldly and magisterially, Saiber bridges the gap between literary studies, Renaissance philosophy, the sciences of computus (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’s task of mathematical proportions of letters – and the ensuing interdependent relationships between form and text."" - Sergius Kodera, New Design University (Renaissance and Reformation)
"""Together with her lively writing style, Saiber’s erudition, based on close reading of primary sources and a remarkable command of secondary literatures, make Measured Words a pleasure to read. Scholars will return to this book for research leads and for chapters to assign to their graduate and undergraduate students."" -- Renzo Baldasso * <em>Renaissance Quarterly</em> * ""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."" -- T. Timmons * Choice Magazine vol 55:11:2018 * ""Boldly and magisterially, Saiber bridges the gap between literary studies, Renaissance philosophy, the sciences of computus (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’s task of mathematical proportions of letters – and the ensuing interdependent relationships between form and text."" -- Sergius Kodera, New Design University * <em>Renaissance and Reformation</em> *"
Together with her lively writing style, Saiber's erudition, based on close reading of primary sources and a remarkable command of secondary literatures, make Measured Words a pleasure to read. Scholars will return to this book for research leads and for chapters to assign to their graduate and undergraduate students. -- Renzo Baldasso * <em>Renaissance Quarterly</em> * 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. -- T. Timmons * Choice Magazine vol 55:11:2018 * Boldly and magisterially, Saiber bridges the gap between literary studies, Renaissance philosophy, the sciences of computus (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's task of mathematical proportions of letters - and the ensuing interdependent relationships between form and text. -- Sergius Kodera, New Design University * <em>Renaissance and Reformation</em> *
Together with her lively writing style, Saiber's erudition, based on close reading of primary sources and a remarkable command of secondary literatures, make Measured Words a pleasure to read. Scholars will return to this book for research leads and for chapters to assign to their graduate and undergraduate students - Renzo Baldasso, Cambridge, MA - Renaissance Quarterly, vol 72 no 2 '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.' - T. Timmons - Choice Magazine vol 55:11:2018
Together with her lively writing style, Saiber's erudition, based on close reading of primary sources and a remarkable command of secondary literatures, make Measured Words a pleasure to read. Scholars will return to this book for research leads and for chapters to assign to their graduate and undergraduate students. -- Renzo Baldasso, Cambridge, MA * Renaissance Quarterly, vol 72 no 2 * 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. -- T. Timmons * Choice Magazine vol 55:11:2018 * Boldly and magisterially, Saiber bridges the gap between literary studies, Renaissance philosophy, the sciences of computus (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's task of mathematical proportions of letters - and the ensuing interdependent relationships between form and text. -- Sergius Kodera, New Design University * Renaissance and Reformation *
Author Information
Arielle Saiber is a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College.
