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 soort werk 

    Books

• Alternatieve titel

  • 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

Door

• • Heeft auteur 

    Andersen, Kirsti

Medewerking van

• • Met medewerking van 

    Taylor, Brook

Uitgever

• Uitgave

  New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 1992

• Jaar

  • Publicatie jaar 

    1992

Gaat over

• Persoon

  • Als onderwerp 

    Taylor, Brook

• Onderwerp

  • Als onderwerp 

    wetenschap
  • Als onderwerp 

    onderzoekers (afzonderlijk)
  • Als onderwerp 

    perspectiefleer
  • Als onderwerp 

    mathematische wetenschap

Type

• Taal

  • Heeft publicatie taal 

    Engels

Classificatie

• ISBN

  9781461209355

Annotaties / titel notitie's

• Notities

  • 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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