Leon Battista Alberti's bombard problem in \textit{Ludi matematici}: geometry and warfare

DOI10.1007/s00283-013-9407-3zbMath1284.01027OpenAlexW2048214636MaRDI QIDQ393484

Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua, Kim Williams

Publication date: 23 January 2014

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9407-3

zbMATH Keywords

FibonacciarchitectureGalileoarchipendulumartilleryballisticsbombardequilibrafortificationsgunner's quadrantLeon Battista AlbertiLudi matematiciwarfare

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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