Article ID: CBB000671073

Teaching Euclid in a Practical Context: Linear Perspective and Practical Geometry (2006)

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Camerota, Filippo (Author)


Science and Education
Volume: 15
Pages: 323--334


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Special Issue: Science Teaching in Early Modern Europe
Language: English

This article explores the transmission of practical knowledge in the XV and XVI centuries. According to cosmographer Egnatio Danti, optics and other mathematical sciences had been banished from the main philosophical schools of his period, and the little which remains to us is limited to some practical aspects learned from the mechanical artificers. The mechanical artificers were architects, painters and surveyors whose mathematical training constitutes the subject dealt with in this article. The context of Danti's remark was the letter to the Accademici del Disegno of Perugia which introduce his Italian translation of Euclid's Optics. After the great Medieval season of optical studies, in effect, this science progressed mainly through its practical applications, especially through that part of perspective which pertains to painting (Piero della Francesca), and through the spread of methods and instruments for measuring by sight.

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Description Looks at optics and the mathematical training of architects, painters, and surveyors.


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Authors & Contributors
Monteleone, Cosimo
Williams, Kim
Raynaud, Dominique
Josep Maria Pons-Poblet
Jordi Masahiro Simó Amezawa
Quaglino, Margherita
Concepts
Perspective
Geometry
Mathematics
Optics
Science and art
Painters and painting
Time Periods
16th century
15th century
Renaissance
17th century
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Italy
Florence (Italy)
Baghdad (Iraq)
Wales
Greece
France
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