Book ID: CBB000850432

The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge (2007)

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Andersen, Kirsti (Author)


Springer


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xxxvii + 812 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Davis, Philip J. (2008) Review of "The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 332). unapi

Review Gray, Jeremy (2009) Review of "The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge". Historia Mathematica (p. 182). unapi

Review Bellé, Riccardo (2009) Review of "The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 132). unapi

Review Binder, Christa (2012) Review of "The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 291). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Monteleone, Cosimo
Williams, Kim
Dupré, Sven
Camerota, Filippo
Quaglino, Margherita
Temple, Nicholas
Journals
Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies
Signum: revista da ABREM
Science and Education
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Egea Editore
Springer International Publishing
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Royal Collection
Olschki
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Perspective
Science and art
Optics
Geometry
Mathematics
Visual representation; visual communication
People
Francesca, Piero della
Leonardo da Vinci
Galilei, Galileo
Barbaro, Daniele
Stevin, Simon
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Time Periods
16th century
15th century
17th century
Renaissance
Medieval
18th century
Places
Italy
Baghdad (Iraq)
Florence (Italy)
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