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

DOI10.1007/S00283-018-9840-4zbMath1409.00045OpenAlexW2900586589WikidataQ128986084 ScholiaQ128986084MaRDI QIDQ666906

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

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

Cites Work

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

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