The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe

by Samuel Y. Edgerton Jr.

Book Overview

In The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to a subject of perennial interest to the history of art and science in the West: the birth of linear perspective. Edgerton retells the fascinating story of how perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence, growing out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives. And yet, ironically,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474809
• ISBN13: 9780801474804
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher