Leon Battista Alberti
1404-1472
Italian Architect and Writer
Like many key figures in the history of mathematics during the Middle Ages, Leon Battista Alberti was not a professional mathematician, and...
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Leon Battista Alberti
1404-1472
Italian architect and writer who, in addition to his work in mathematics, wrote on geology. In about 1450 Alberti discussed the erosive effect of the atmosphere, and in...
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Leone Battista Alberti
1404-1472
Italian architect and mathematician whose Della Pittura (1435), which contains the first general account of the laws of perspective, initiated the classical Renaissanc...
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Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an Italian writer, humanist, and architect. Through his theoretical writings on painting, sculpture, and architecture, he raised them from the level of the mechan...
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Leon Battista Alberti was born in Vienna on February 18, 1404. Alberti was something of a protypical Renaissance Man, having achieved success as an architect, painter, musician, and mathematician. In ...
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Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti