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Abstract Daniele Barbaro examined ‘geometric ratio’ at length in his 1567 commentary on Vitruvius, explaining the properties of and operations with ratios involving continuous quantities such as lengths. While some of this is lost on us today, his explanations were certainly clear to those of his contemporaries who were studying Euclid thanks to new translations. The purpose of this present paper is to recoup for modern readers some of the notions covered by Barbaro, and to set his explanation into context by briefly reviewing similar treatments by Leon Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio.
Abstract Daniele Barbaro examined ‘geometric ratio’ at length in his 1567 commentary on Vitruvius, explaining the properties of and operations with ratios involving continuous quantities such as lengths. While some of this is lost on us today, his explanations were certainly clear to those of his contemporaries who were studying Euclid thanks to new translations. The purpose of this present paper is to recoup for modern readers some of the notions covered by Barbaro, and to set his explanation into context by briefly reviewing similar treatments by Leon Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio.
Daniele Barbaro on Geometric Ratio
Williams, Kim (author)
Nexus Network Journal ; 21 ; 271-292
2019-05-15
22 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
The Perspective of Daniele Barbaro
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