GEOMETRY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
Written by Dan Pedoe
Published by Penguin Books
in 1976
ISBN: 0140551190
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GEOMETRY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
Written by Dan Pedoe.
Stock no. 1608090
1976.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
The effect geometry has on artistic achievement. Professor Pedoe takes a look at Euclid's Elements (an inspiration of modern geometry) and guides the reader through the discoveries stimulated by the theory of perspective and discusses form in architecture, projective geometry, and mathematical curves as well as the concept of space. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w plates and diagrams. 296 pages including index. ISBN: 0140551190. Pages browned. Some foxing, especially to endpapers. Else contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Chapter 1. Vitruvius
- Chapter 2. Albrecht Durer
- Chapter 3. Leaonardo da Vinci
- Chapter 4. Form in Architecture
- Chapter 5. The Optics of Euclid
- Chapter 6. Euclid's Elements of Geometry
- Chapter 7. Cartesian and Projective Geometry
- Chapter 8. Curves
- Chapter 9. Space