The philosophers' game : rithmomachia in medieval and renaissance Europe, with an edition of Ralph Lever and William Fulke, the most noble, auncient, and learned playe (1563)
"Ann Moyer invites us to engage with the forgotten, chess-like game rithmomachia ("The Battle of Numbers") that combined the pleasures of gaming with mathematical study and moral education. Intellectuals of the medieval and Renaissance periods who played this game were seeking not only to master the principles of Boethian mathematics, but to improve their minds and characters by contemplating its numbers and ratios." "The Philosophers' Game examines the nature and importance of the game's appeal as well as some of the reasons why it faded into obscurity."
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2001
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205 pages ; 25 cm.
9780472112289, 0472112287
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