The Geometry of an Art The History of the Mathematical Theory of Per
This monograph describes how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective evolved between the years 1435 and 1800 and how new insights within the mathematical theory of perspective influenced the way the discipline was presented in textbooks. In o
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Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences K. Andersen Brook Taylor's Work on Linear Perspective H.IM. Bos Redefming Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction I Cannon/So Dostrowsky The Evolution of Dynamics: Vibration Theory From 1687 to 1742 B. ChandlerlW. Magnus The History of Combinatorial Group Theory
AI. Dale History of Inverse Probability: From Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson, Second Edition AI. Dale Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825, with Notes by the Translator
A Dale Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes P.I Federico Descartes On Polyhedra: A Study of the De Solidorum Elementa B.R. Goldstein The Astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson (1288-1344) H.H. Goldstine A History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th Through the 19th Century H.H. Goldstine A History of the Calculus of Variations From the 17th Through the 19th Century G. GraBhoff The History of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue
A HermannlK. von Meyennfv.F. Weisskopf (Eds.) Wolfgang Pauli: Scientific Correspondence I: 1919-1929 A HermannlK. von Meyennfv.F. Weisskopf (Eds.) Wolfgang Pauli: Scientific Correspondence IT: 1930-1939 C.C. Heyde/E. Seneta, I.J. Bienayme: Statistical Theory Anticipated IP. Hogendijk Ibn A1-Haytham's Completion of the Conics I H0yrup Length, Widths, Surfaces: A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin A. Jones Pappus of Alexandria, Book 7 of the Collection Continued after the lIIustration Credits
Kirsti Andersen
The Geometry of an Art The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge
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Kirsti Andersen Department of History of Science The Steno Institute University of Aarhus Denmark
Sources and Series Editor: Jesper Liitzen Institute for Mathematical Sciences University of Copenhagen DK-2100 Copenhagen Denmark
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