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 on perspective

• • Is type of work 

    Books

• Alternate title

  • Linear perspective: or, A new method of representing justly all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all situations
  • New principles of linear perspective: or The art of designing on a plane the representations of all sorts of objects, in a more general and simple method than has been done before

By

• • Has author 

    Andersen, Kirsti

Contributors

• • Contributor 

    Taylor, Brook

Publisher

• Publication

  New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 1992

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1992

Is about

• Person

  • As subject 

    Taylor, Brook

• Subject

  • As subject 

    wetenschap
  • As subject 

    onderzoekers (afzonderlijk)
  • As subject 

    perspectiefleer
  • As subject 

    mathematische wetenschap

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

Classification

• ISBN

  9781461209355

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Brook Taylor's Linear perspective and New principles of linear perspective were printed for R. Knaplock, London, in 1715 and 1719 respectively. -- Reprinted photographically, with introduction and notes 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 theory of perspective where gifted mathematicians used their creativity to solve basic problems of perspective and simultaneously were inspired to consider more general problems in the projective geometry. Taylor was one of the key figures in this development. The second aspect concerns the problem of transmitting the knowledge gained by mathematicians to the practitioners. Although Taylor's books were mathematical rather than challenging, he was the first mathematician to succeed in making the practitioners interested in teaching the theoretical foundation of perspective. He became so important in the development that he was named "the father of modern perspective" in England. The English school of Taylor followers contained among others the painter John Kirby and Joseph Highmore and the scientist Joseph Priestley. After its translation to Italian and French in the 1750s, Taylor's work became popular on the continent. --

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