The Story of 0: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance - Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature - Michele Jaffe - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674839502 - September 30, 1999
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Michele Jaffe
The Story of 0: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance - Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 1st edition

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This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Danae and the shower of gold. Jaffee offers a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing, as the absence of value and the place-holder constructing value. She traces the wide-ranging implications of "nothing"-not only in mathematics but also in literature.

208 pages, 21 halftones, 7 line illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 30, 1999
ISBN13 9780674839502
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 176
Dimensions 165 × 235 × 20 mm   ·   494 g
Language English  

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