On Ratio and Proportion
On Ratio and Proportion
The Common Properties of Quantity
Silvio Belli
Translation and Commentary by
Stephen R. Wassell and Kim Williams
Foreword by
Lionel March
February 2002 / Paper / ISBN 88-88479-00-7 / 106 pp. printed on acid-free paper
Price : €15.00 Euro
I have truly found the Royal way of treating in their natural order all of matheamatics. And having begun with the Ratios and Proportions, Common Properties of Quantities, the univrsal subject of all Mathematics, and seeming to me that I have not only treated them, as I said, in their natural order, but have also amplified and pared them down where necessary, and with such facility have I explained them that they have become clear and easy, difficult though they were.
Silvio Belli, "To the Readers".
Construction History Research Perspectives in Europe
Construction History. Research Perspectives in Europe
Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce and Orietta Pedemonte, eds.
December 2004 / Paper / ISBN 88-88479-11-2 / 202 pp.
Even today there are problems that plague the history of technology as regards its relationship to the histories of economics, of science, and of culture. A sinister and disquieting unease is felt by anyone who takes an interest in the subject and attempts to define the disciplinary boundaries, making use of categories and shared concepts of knowledge of the longest tradition.
