Brunelleschi's mirror, Alberti's window, and Galileo's 'perspective tube' O espelho de Brunelleschi, a janela de Alberti e o 'tubo' de Galileu
This essay argues that the advent of linear perspective, ca. 1425, when Filippo Brunelleschi painted a small panel of the Florentine Baptistery by applying the geometric rules of optical mirror reflection, was more than just an artistic event. Indeed, it subsequently had the most profound - and quit...
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| Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2006-10-01
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| Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702006000500010 |