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Brook Taylors Work on Linear Perspective

A Study of Taylors Role in the History of Perspective Geometry. Including Facsimiles of Taylors Two Books on Perspective, Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences 10
Springer Verlag GmbH
ISBN/EAN: 9780387974866
Umbreit-Nr.: 1532969

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: x, 259 S.
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Einband: gebundenes Buch

Erschienen am 03.12.1991
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    • InhaltsangabeContents: Brook Taylor's Role in the History of Linear Perspective.- Linear Perspective.- New Principles of Linear Perspective.- Preface.- Appendix I, II.- Figures to New Principles.- Notes to New Principles.- Bibliography.- Index.

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    • InhaltsangabeBook One Brook Taylor's Role in the History of Linear Perspective.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Taylor's Interest in Perspective.- 3. The Basic Concepts of Taylor's Method.- 4. Taylor's Inheritance.- 5. Towards a Perspective Geometry.- 6. Three-Dimensional Perspective Problems.- 7. Inverse Problems of Perspective.- 8. The Appendices of New Principles.- 9. Taylor and the History of Linear Perspective in England before 1800.- 10. The Acknowledgment of Taylor's Theory on the Continent.- 11. Taylor's Method and Principles.- 12. Concluding Remarks.- Appendix. The Books on Perspective which Taylor Presumably Possessed.- Book Two Linear Perspective.- To the Reader.- I. An Explanation of Those Things that Are Necessary To Be Understood in Order to the Practice of Perspective.- II. Propositions Relating to the General Practice of Perspective.- III. Of Finding the Shadows of Given Figures.- IV. Of Finding the Representations of the Reflections of Figures on Polished Planes.- V. Of the Inverse Practice of Perspective and of the Manner of Examining Pictures Already Drawn.- Figures to Linear Perspective.- Books Printed for R. Knaplock at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard.- Notes to Linear Perspective by Kirsti Andersen.- Book Three New Principles of Linear Perspective.- Preface.- I. Definitions [Axioms, Theorems, Problems, and Examples].- II. Of the Manner of Finding the Original Figures from Their Projections Given, and of the Situation That Is Necessary To Be Observed for Viewing Particular Projections.- Appendix I. The Description of a Method, by which the Representations of Figures May Be Drawn On any Surface, Be it Never so Irregular.- Appendix II. A New Theory for Mixing of Colours, Taken from Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks.- Figures to New Principles.- Notes to New Principles by Kirsti Andersen.