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The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe Samuel Y. Edgerton 1st edition
The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe
Samuel Y. Edgerton
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.
224 pages, 105
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 15, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780801447587 |
| Publishers | Cornell University Press |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 159 × 20 mm · 480 g |
| Language | English |