Download or read book A Compleat Treatise on Perspective written by Thomas Malton and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Compleat Treatise on Perspective written by Thomas Malton and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Compleat Treatise on Perspective in Theory and Practice written by and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brook Taylor s Work on Linear Perspective written by Kirsti Andersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to make accessible the two important but rare works of Brook Taylor and to describe his role in the history of linear perspective. Taylor's works, Linear Perspective and New Principles on Linear Perspective, are among the most important sources in the history of the theory of perspective. This text focuses on two aspects of this history. The first is the development, starting in the beginning of the 17th century, of a mathematical theory of perspective where gifted mathematicians used their creativity to solve basic problems of perspective and simultaneously were inspired to consider more general problems in the projective geometry. Taylor was one of the key figures in this development. The second aspect concerns the problem of transmitting the knowledge gained by mathematicians to the practitioners. Although Taylor's books were mathematical rather than challenging, he was the first mathematician to succeed in making the practitioners interested in teaching the theoretical foundation of perspective. He became so important in the development that he was named "the father of modern perspective" in England. The English school of Taylor followers contained among others the painter John Kirby and Joseph Highmore and the scientist Joseph Priestley. After its translation to Italian and French in the 1750s, Taylor's work became popular on the continent.

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History written by Marlow Anderson and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a span of almost 4000 years, from the ancient Babylonians to the eighteenth century, this collection chronicles the enormous changes in mathematical thinking over this time as viewed by distinguished historians of mathematics from the past and the present. Each of the four sections of the book (Ancient Mathematics, Medieval and Renaissance Mathematics, The Seventeenth Century, The Eighteenth Century) is preceded by a Foreword, in which the articles are put into historical context, and followed by an Afterword, in which they are reviewed in the light of current historical scholarship. In more than one case, two articles on the same topic are included to show how knowledge and views about the topic changed over the years. This book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in mathematics and its history - and, in particular, by mathematics teachers at secondary, college, and university levels.

Download or read book Papers written by Manchester Literary Club and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Stage and the Page written by George Winchester Stone Jr. and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.

Download or read book Catalogue of the printed books and manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects. Library and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Library Catalogue written by Royal Institute of British Architects. Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects written by Royal Institute of British Architects and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of His Grace the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey and in London written by Dukes of Portland. Library and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Geometry of an Art written by Kirsti Andersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-23 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review of literature on perspective constructions from the Renaissance through the 18th century covers 175 authors, emphasizing Peiro della Francesca, Guidobaldo del Monte, Simon Stevin, Brook Taylor, and Johann Heinrich. It treats such topics as the various methods of constructing perspective, the development of theories underlying the constructions, and the communication between mathematicians and artisans in these developments.

Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Citizen Spectator written by Wendy Bellion and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.

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Download or read book Transactions written by Manchester Literary Club and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Manchester bibliography for 1880-85 by Charles William Sutton.