The geometry of coincidence : Nicholas of Cusa and the quadrature of the circle / Federica De Felice.
Pubblicazione:
Cham : Springer, c2025.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 117 p. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Springerbriefs in history of science and technology, 2211-4564
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Life for thinking and thinking for life 2. Theology and mathematics: the perfect combination 3. Scripta mathematica: genesis, dates, and contents 4. Archification method and coincidentia oppositorum 5. Space as the creative place of mens-mensura 6. Point as terminus in the process ad infinitum 7. What if someone denies that such a point [of coincidence] exists? : Toscanelli's critique 8. Sources 9. Cusanus... geometra ridiculus? : the reception of his mathematical texts. Abbreviations. Author index
