Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Mathematics: user's manual
- Appetizers
- 1 Space and geometry
- 2 Motions on the plane
- 3 The many symmetries of planar objects
- 4 The many objects with planar symmetries
- 5 Reflections on the mirror
- 6 A raw material
- 7 Stretching the plane
- 8 Aural wallpaper
- 9 The dawn of perspective
- 10 A repertoire of drawing systems
- 11 The vicissitudes of perspective
- 12 The vicissitudes of geometry
- 13 Symmetries in non-Euclidean geometries
- 14 The shape of the universe
- Appendix: Rule-driven creation
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index of symbols
- Index of names
- Index of concepts
Appetizers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Mathematics: user's manual
- Appetizers
- 1 Space and geometry
- 2 Motions on the plane
- 3 The many symmetries of planar objects
- 4 The many objects with planar symmetries
- 5 Reflections on the mirror
- 6 A raw material
- 7 Stretching the plane
- 8 Aural wallpaper
- 9 The dawn of perspective
- 10 A repertoire of drawing systems
- 11 The vicissitudes of perspective
- 12 The vicissitudes of geometry
- 13 Symmetries in non-Euclidean geometries
- 14 The shape of the universe
- Appendix: Rule-driven creation
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index of symbols
- Index of names
- Index of concepts
Summary
appetizer, n. (’æpItaIzə(r)) […] ⊳ fig. Something intended to arouse interest in what follows; a sample of what may be expected in the future.
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY edited by Simpson & Weiner (1986). Definition of “appetizer”. By permission of Oxford University Press.Martini
Without question, the undisputed king of cocktails is the Martini.
Anistatia Miller and Jared Brown Mixellany Limited. www.mixellany.comAt the beginning of the fourteenth century, Giotto di Bondone was sowing in Florence the seed of the Italian Renaissance in painting. His works attempted to abandon the stiffness of the Byzantine style and replace it with a more naturalistic approach with a marked emphasis on the representation of space and volume. In the nearby city of Siena, the intent was different. “Their greatest master of Giotto's generation, Duccio, had tried – and tried successfully – to breathe new life into the old Byzantine forms instead of discarding them altogether” (Gombrich, 1989: 160). So did Duccio's most renowned pupil, Simone Martini.
Little is known with certainty about Martini's early years. He was born in the first half of the 1280s, probably in the town of San Gimignano, where he had an early contact with the craft of painting as his father specialized in the preparation of the first coat (arriccio in Italian) applied to wall surfaces on which a fresco was going to be painted. He subsequently became a pupil of Duccio, and by the early 1310s he was producing his first works.
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