Overview
- Two bibliographies: the first containing all the original works on perspective to which the author refers, and the second listing supplementary literature
- Text is based on more than 200 books on perspective
Part of the book series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SHMP)
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"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)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Geometry of an Art
Book Subtitle: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge
Authors: Kirsti Andersen
Series Title: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48946-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25961-1Published: 07 December 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3846-9Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-48946-9Published: 23 November 2008
Series ISSN: 2196-8810
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 814
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Geometry