The geometry of vision. Science, art, didactic
Mathematics and visual arts (00A66) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to geometry (51-01) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mathematics education (97-01) Technological tools, calculators (aspects of mathematics education) (97U70)
The five parts of this multimedia interactive CD are entitled: 1) Euclid, 2) Menelaus, 3) Alberti, 4) Piero della Francesca, and 5) a) ``Immagini della geometria proiettiva, b) ``Coni circolari e loro sezioni, c) ``Gli albori della geometria proiettiva. Our CD comprises the following books: -- Optics by Euclid, both in Greek and in Italian translation. -- Sphaerica by Menelaus, both in Latin and in Italian translation. -- De pictura by Leon Battista Alberti. -- De prospectiva pingendi by Piero della Francesca. Euclid's ``Optics is the earliest surviving work on geometrical optics, and is generally found in Greek manuscripts along with elementary works on spherical astronomy. There were a number of medieval Latin translations, which became of new importance in the fifteenth century for the theory of linear perspective. The early Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca developed a mathematically rigorous system of perspective on which he wrote the treatise ``De prospectiva pingendi. This technique is beautifully illustrated here. The CD has a rich array of examples to illuminate and extend the ideas presented also in the printed text. The book is a self-contained introduction to areas of Geometry of Sight: From Euclid's Optics to the Renaissance Perspective. The resulting CD+book is a single resource that can be used to improve mathematics curricula and teaching.
- The optics section of Museum of the History of Arabic Sciences in Muscat
- Geometry of eye design: biology and technology
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6152348 (Why is no real title available?)
- ``Where natural law holds no sway: geometrical optics and divine light in Dante, Michelangelo, and Raphael
- From Vision to Perception: Chardin’s Eighteenth Century Cultural and Scientific Approach to Painting (and Soap Bubbles)
- Studies on binocular vision. Optics, vision and perspective from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries
- A misunderstood humanistic version of Euclid's \textit{Optics}
- Optique et perspective : Ptolémée, Alhazen, Alberti / Optics and perspective : Ptolemy, Alhazen, Alberti
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