The English Translation of the 1652 Edition of J.F. Niceron’s La perspective curieuse

Year: 2017 Authors: Sylvia Hunt; J.L. Hunt

Core claim

A long-neglected foundational treatise on anamorphic art and perspective has been translated into English with corrected mathematics and new scholarly apparatus.

Topics

anamorphic art, perspective theory, textual scholarship, mathematical commentary

Domains

geometry, optics, projective perspective, catoptrics and dioptrics, anamorphism, Renaissance art, visual culture, book design

Methods

translation, OCR-assisted editing, concordance building, theorem commentary

Media

printed treatise, plates, tabular timeline, English translation

Source status

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