Kirsti Andersen

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The Geometry of an Art (eBook, PDF)

The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge

Beschreibung

This book aims at giving a comprehensive review of literature on perspective constructions from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century. Covering the work of some 175 authors, it treats the emergence of the various methods of constructing perspective, the development of the theories underlying the constructions, the communication between mathematicians and artisans in these developments, and the interactions between these theories and various subjects in mathematical geometry.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 67.28MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Kirsti Andersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 814
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387489469
• Artikelnr.: 37287923

Rezensionen

Aus den Rezensionen:

"Dieses Buch leistet einen unerlässlichen Beitrag zur Geschichte der Perspektive ... eine feste Nomenklatur und eine einheitliche geometrische Darstellung ...auch klar, dass jene Fragen durch andere Spezialisten behandelt wurden ... Die Inhaltsübersicht bietet dank Ihrer Feinteiligkeit ein nützliches Instrument zur Orientierung. Der Text ist durchgehend klar formuliert und strukturiert. Begleitet wird er von Reproduktionen aus den Quellentexten sowie Hunderten von gekonnt gezeichneten geometrischen Diagrammen. Die geometrischen Ausführungen ... sind in den Legenden untergebracht, so dass der Fluss des Haupttextes nicht gehindert wird ..." -- Samuel Gessner, in: NTM, 2010, Issue 1, S. 123 f.

From the reviews:

"The book in question is a survey of the history of this subject ... . I do not know the author, but I came to trust her voice in the book, to trust her honesty and her judgments. I appreciated the clarity of her illustrations and her concern for the reader's understanding. I found the book to be carefully written, and I was impressed with the immense amount of work that must have gone into writing it." (Greg St. George, Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik, Vol. 39, 2007)

"I was very pleased to find Kristi Andersen's book on the history of the geometrical evolution of perspective. ... Reading it from the point of view of someone who is interested in geometry as well as art, it is a fascinating book, but it also has much to offer the historian of mathematics. ... it is extremely well produced and researched and makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on perspective as well as the history of geometry." (John Sharp, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Vol. 1 (4), 2007)