The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of The Universe
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Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and ultimately undermined medieval Christian cosmology.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Jr.
Samuel Y. Edgerton - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780801474804
- Release date
- 2009
- Volume
- 1
