[PDF.04nc] The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

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 | #1508841 in Books |  1997-05-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x.95 x7.75l,1.55 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Charming art, charming mathematics, unfocused exposition|By Viktor Blasjo|Renaissance artists learned how to draw perspective images. Perhaps the realisation of how to draw checkered floors sparked the development. Then one learned to draw perspective views of cubes and prisms and such. By approximation, these techniques could be of use when drawing more complex bodies and well| |`Compelling book...lavishly illustrated book. Mathematics and arts are clearly equally delightful for Field, and she transmits that enjoyment to the reader.'
The Times

`Field's book is indeed a shot of adrenaline in the timid arm of Renaissanc

As any student of art will tell you, one of the chief accomplishments of the Renaissance was the development of perspective in painting--the introduction of spatial perception that led to the legendary beauty and majesty of works by Giotto, Botticelli, and da Vinci. In The Invention of Infinity, Dr. J. V. Field, a noted historian on math and the arts, tells the remarkable story of how the "practical" mathematics of Renaissance artists actually influenc...

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