Ornamental Flourishes in Giordano Bruno's Geometry

What was Giordano Bruno thinking when he unleashed a flurry of hearts, moons, stars, ivy leaves, and flowers into nearly seventy-five geometric diagrams in two of his most mathematical treatises, the "Articuli centum et sexaginta adversus huius tempestatis mathematicos atque philosophos and De...

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Main Author: Saiber, Arielle (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2003
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2003, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 729-745
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