Brook Taylor's Work on Linear Perspective: A Study of Taylor's Role in the History of Perspective Geometry. Including Facsimiles of Taylor's Two Books

by Kirsti Andersen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387974865
• ISBN13: 9780387974866
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"