Silvio Belli On Ratio and Proportion Author:Stephen R. Wassell, Kim Williams Silvio Belli, described by architect Andrea Palladio as "the most excellent geometer in our area", wrote of his treatise, On Ratio and Proportion: "I have truly found the Royal way of treating in their natural order all of Mathematics." On Ratio and Proportion records the ordinary understanding of ratio and proportion as would be appreciat... more »ed by contemporaries of Palladio. With a Foreword by Lionel March, this translation and commentary by Stephen R. Wassell and Kim Williams makes the "ordinary understanding" of the Cinquecento accessible to English-speaking scholars for the first time.« less