Brook Taylor’s Work on Linear Perspective

Brook Taylor’s Work on Linear Perspective

Author: Kirsti Andersen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780387974866

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A Study of Taylors Role in the History of Perspective Geometry. Including Facsimiles of Taylors̀ Two Books on Perspective.


The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope

The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope

Author: Samuel Y. Edgerton

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780801474804

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Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and ultimately undermined medieval Christian cosmology.