References for Piero della Francesca

Version for printing
  1. W P D Wightman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. K Clark, Piero della Francesca (1969).
  2. J V Field, The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance (Oxford 1997).
  3. R Longhi, Piero della Francesca (London, 1930).

Articles:

  1. K Andersen, The mathematical treatment of anamorphoses from Piero della Francesca to Niceron, in History of mathematics (San Diego, CA, 1996), 3-28.
  2. K Andersen, Perspective and the plan and elevation technique, in particular in the work by Piero della Francesca, in Amphora (Basel, 1992), 1-23.
  3. G Arrighi, Artisti matematici del rinascimento : Piero della Francesca e Francesco di Giorgio Martini, in 1971 Actes XIIe Congrès Internat. d'Histoire des Sciences Tome IV : Histoire des Mathématiques et de la Mécanique (Paris, 1971), 5-9.
  4. G Arrighi, Note di algebra di Piero della Francesca, Physis - Riv. Internaz. Storia Sci. 9 (1967), 421-424.
  5. J V Field, Piero della Francesca and the 'distance point method' of perspective construction, Nuncius Ann. Storia Sci. 10 (2) (1995), 509-530.
  6. J V Field, Piero della Francesca's treatment of edge distortion, J. Warburg Courtauld Inst. 49 (1986), 66-90.
  7. E Giusti, Medieval sources of Piero della Francesca's 'Algebra' (Italian), Boll. Storia Sci. Mat. 13 (2) (1993), 199-250.
  8. E Giusti, The algebra in the 'Trattato d'abaco' of Piero della Francesca : observations and conjectures (Italian), Boll. Storia Sci. Mat. 11 (2) (1991), 55-83.
  9. D Stoller, Piero della Francesca - der Maler als Mathematiker, in Mathematikdidaktik, Bildungsgeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte II (Cologne, 1990), 17-35.
JOC/EFR August 1995

The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/References/Francesca.html