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The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.

Edgerton, Samuel Y.; Edgerton, Samuel Y. Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective.
2009
NC748 .E34 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The mirror, the window, and the telescope : how Renaissance linear perspective changed our vision of the universe / Samuel Y. Edgerton.
Author
Edgerton, Samuel Y.
ISBN
9780801447587 (alk. paper)
0801447585 (alk. paper)
9780801474804 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801474809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Call Number
NC748 .E34 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
701/.8209455109024
Note
Update and sequel to: The Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.
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Edgerton, Samuel Y. Renaissance rediscovery of linear perspective.
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Cornell paperbacks.
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Brunelleschi's mirror
Brunelleschi's method
Brunelleschi's second perspective panel
Brunelleschi's heritage: Masaccio's Trinity
"Oh, che dolce cosa รจ questa prospettiva!" Donatello and Masaccio
More Masaccio, Masolino, and even Fra Angelico
Alberti's method
Alberti's window
Alberti's legacy: Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and beyond
Galileo's "perspective tube"
Postface: post perspectivam.

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