Marginalia to an Edition of Ex Ludis Rerum Mathematicarum: Observations and Notes for the Publication of a Scientific Text and Its Figures
Furlan, Francesco
Marginalia to an Edition of Ex Ludis Rerum Mathematicarum: Observations and Notes for the Publication of a Scientific Text and Its Figures - 2006.
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The first part of this contribution discusses the philological problems posed by the Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum, notably in No. 6 (on the measurement of the height of a tower of which only the top is visible) and in No. 17 (on the measurement of “any large distance”). In the second part there is a broader consideration of all of Alberti’s technico-scientific works (with particular reference to the De re ædificatoria, the Descriptio urbis Romæ and the De statua) and his classical and mediaeval sources : this focuses specifically on the cultural status of drawn illustration and figures ( picturæ), and the well-known fact that - in the period which preceded the “printing Revolution” - these latter were considered inferior to the written word ( verbum), and it underlines the objective material conditions of manuscript transmission and the natural epistemological implications of those conditions. This paper proposes a series of methodological observations related generally to the practice of textual criticism and publication of scientific texts and any possible illustrations transmitted with them.
Marginalia to an Edition of Ex Ludis Rerum Mathematicarum: Observations and Notes for the Publication of a Scientific Text and Its Figures - 2006.
11
The first part of this contribution discusses the philological problems posed by the Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum, notably in No. 6 (on the measurement of the height of a tower of which only the top is visible) and in No. 17 (on the measurement of “any large distance”). In the second part there is a broader consideration of all of Alberti’s technico-scientific works (with particular reference to the De re ædificatoria, the Descriptio urbis Romæ and the De statua) and his classical and mediaeval sources : this focuses specifically on the cultural status of drawn illustration and figures ( picturæ), and the well-known fact that - in the period which preceded the “printing Revolution” - these latter were considered inferior to the written word ( verbum), and it underlines the objective material conditions of manuscript transmission and the natural epistemological implications of those conditions. This paper proposes a series of methodological observations related generally to the practice of textual criticism and publication of scientific texts and any possible illustrations transmitted with them.
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