"The discovery of a method for correct perspective is usually attributed to... Brunelleschi... The first published method appears in... On Painting [Della Pittura] by Alberti. ...Alberti's veil, used a piece of transparent cloth, stretched on a frame... viewing the scene with one eye... fixed... one could trace the scene directly onto the veil. ...The mathematical setting... is the family of lines ("light rays") through the point (the "eye"), together with the plane... (the "veil"). ...In this setting, the problems of perspective and were not very difficult, but the concepts were... a challenge to traditional geometric thought. Contrary to Euclid, one had... (i) Points at infinity ("vanishing points") where parallels met. (ii) Transformations that changed lengths and angles (projections). The first to construct a mathematical theory incorporating these ideas was Desargues,... although the idea of points at infinity had already been used by Kepler..."
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Girard Desargues
(21 February 1591 – September 1661) was a French mathematician, architect and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of . , the , and the Desargues crater are named in his honour.
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