Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and indexes.
Contents:
Perspectiva naturalis/artificialis -- Knowledge and beliefs regarding linear perspective -- Understanding errors in perspective -- Fact and fiction regarding Masaccio?s Trinity Fresco -- Ibn al-Haytham on binocular vision -- The legacy of Ibn al-Haytham -- The rejection of the two-point perspective system -- The properties of two-point perspective -- The Hauck?Panofsky conjecture regarding curvilinear perspective -- The White?Carter conjecture on synthetic perspective -- De Mesa?s hypothesis regarding the arithmetic construction of perspective.
Series:
Archimedes, new studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology, 1385-0180 ; volume 47
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