The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope

The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope

How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe

by Samuel Y. Edgerton

199 pages· 2009· ISBN 9780801474804
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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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