Kirsti Andersen
The geometry of an art : the history of the mathematical theory of perspective from Alberti to Monge - New York: Springer, [c2007] - 812 p - Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences .
1. The Birth of Perspective
2. Alberti and Piero della Francesca
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Italy in the Cinquecento
5. North of the Alps Before 1600
6. The Birth of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective Guidobaldo and Stevin
7. The Dutch Development after Stevin
8. Italy after Guidobaldo
9. France and the Southern Netherlands after 1600
10. Britain
11. The German-Speaking Areas after 1600
12. Lambert
13. Monge Closing a Circle
14. Summing Up
Key Issues ver since the late 1970s when Pia Holdt, a student of mine at the time, and Jed Buchwald, a colleague normally working in another field, made E me aware of how fascinating the history of perspective constructions is, I have wanted to know more. My studies have resulted in the present book, in which I am mainly concerned with describing how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective developed and how, and to what extent, new insights within the mathematical theoryof perspective influenced the way the discipline was presented in textbooks. --- summary provided by publisher
9780387259611
Mathematics
QA 515
The geometry of an art : the history of the mathematical theory of perspective from Alberti to Monge - New York: Springer, [c2007] - 812 p - Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences .
1. The Birth of Perspective
2. Alberti and Piero della Francesca
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Italy in the Cinquecento
5. North of the Alps Before 1600
6. The Birth of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective Guidobaldo and Stevin
7. The Dutch Development after Stevin
8. Italy after Guidobaldo
9. France and the Southern Netherlands after 1600
10. Britain
11. The German-Speaking Areas after 1600
12. Lambert
13. Monge Closing a Circle
14. Summing Up
Key Issues ver since the late 1970s when Pia Holdt, a student of mine at the time, and Jed Buchwald, a colleague normally working in another field, made E me aware of how fascinating the history of perspective constructions is, I have wanted to know more. My studies have resulted in the present book, in which I am mainly concerned with describing how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective developed and how, and to what extent, new insights within the mathematical theoryof perspective influenced the way the discipline was presented in textbooks. --- summary provided by publisher
9780387259611
Mathematics
QA 515