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Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy by Arielle Saiber

TORONTO: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS, 2017, 280 PP., ISBN 978-0-802-03950-7, US $65.00

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  1. University of Lille, Lille, France

    Raffaele Pisano

  2. Also associate to: CPNSS London School of Economics, London, UK

    Raffaele Pisano

  3. School HPS, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Raffaele Pisano

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Pisano, R. Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy by Arielle Saiber. Math Intelligencer 41, 82–86 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09887-7

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