Fra Giovanni Giocondo assembled a considerable number of practical geometry texts during his stay in France from 1495 to 1506. The scarcity of such sources in the vernacular makes the critical edition of these original French texts all the more interesting. The author also analyses Giocondos motivations, studying the rich intellectual personality of this engineer, architect, antiquarian and...
Fra Giocondo & Les Textes Français De Géométrie Pratique
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