Book review of: A. A. Mazzotti, All sides to an oval: properties, parameters, and Borromini's mysterious construction

DOI10.1007/S00283-018-9840-4MaRDI QIDQ666906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Roberta Spallone, Marco Vitali

Publication date 12 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-018-9840-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

External book reviews (00A17) General applied mathematics (00A69) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to geometry (51-01) History of geometry (51-03) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to convex and discrete geometry (52-01) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Cites work

• A survey and comparison of traditional piecewise circular approximations to the ellipse
• On Serlio's constructions of ovals.
• Ovals for any given proportion in architecture: a layout possibly known in the sixteenth century
• What Borromini might have known about ovals. Ruler and compass constructions

Cited in

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• All Sides to an Oval

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