Brook Taylor's Work on Linear Perspective - Kirsti Andersen

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Sommaire:
Book One Brook Taylor's Role in the History of Linear Perspective.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Taylor's Interest in Perspective.- 3. The Basic Concepts of Taylor's Method.- 4. Taylor's Inheritance.- 5. Towards a Perspective Geometry.- 6. Three-Dimensional Perspective Problems.- 7. Inverse Problems of Perspective.- 8. The Appendices of New Principles.- 9. Taylor and the History of Linear Perspective in England before 1800.- 10. The Acknowledgment of Taylor's Theory on the Continent.- 11. Taylor's Method and Principles.- 12. Concluding Remarks.- Appendix. The Books on Perspective which Taylor Presumably Possessed.- Book Two Linear Perspective.- To the Reader.- Figures to Linear Perspective.- Books Printed for R. Knaplock at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard.- Notes to Linear Perspective by Kirsti Andersen.- Book Three New Principles of Linear Perspective.- Preface.- I. Definitions [Axioms, Theorems, Problems, and Examples].- II. Of the Manner of Finding the Original Figures from Their Projections Given, and of the Situation That Is Necessary To Be Observed for Viewing Particular Projections.- Appendix I. The Description of a Method, by which the Representations of Figures May Be Drawn On any Surface, Be it Never so Irregular.- Appendix II. A New Theory for Mixing of Colours, Taken from Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks.- Figures to New Principles.- Notes to New Principles by Kirsti Andersen.