References for Leone Battista Alberti

1. B Gille, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Leone_Battista_Alberti.aspx
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005446/Leon-Battista-Alberti

Books:

3. F Borsi, Leon Battista Alberti (1977, reissued 1989).
4. E H Gombrich, The Story of Art (Phaidon, London, 1995).
5. J Kelly-Gadol, Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Early Renaissance (1969, reprinted 1973).
6. P H Michel, La pensée de L B Alberti (Paris, 1930).

Articles:

7. G Arrighi, Il 'modo optimo' dell' Alberti per la costruzione prospettica, Physis - Riv. Internaz. Storia Sci. 14 (3) (1972), 295-298.
8. A I Borodin, Mathematical calendar for the 1978/79 school year, Mat. v Shkole No 6 (1978), 66-67.
9. J V Field, Perspective and the mathematicians : Alberti to Desargues, in Mathematics from manuscript to print, 1300-1600 (New York, 1988), 236-263.
10. D Kahn, On the origin of polyalphabetic substitution, Isis 71 (256) (1980), 122-127.
11. T B Settle, Ostilio Ricci, a bridge between Alberti and Galileo, in Actes XIIe Congrès Internat. d'Histoire des Sciences, Paris, 1968 Tome III B: Science et Philosphie: XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles (Librairie Sci. et Techn. A. Blanchard, Paris, 1971), 121-126.
12. C Romo Santos, The mirror of our history: the great Aragonese mathematicians (Spanish), Rev. Acad. Cienc. Zaragoza (2) 47 (1992), 43-50.
13. G Simon, Optique et perspective: Ptolémée, Alhazen, Alberti, Rev. Histoire Sci. 54 (3) (2001), 325-350.

August 2006