GEOMETRY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
by Dan Pedoe
Published by Penguin Books. 1976
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.
Pages browned. Some foxing, especially to endpapers. Else contents clean.
ISBN: 0140551190
Stock no. 1608090
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