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The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe

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The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe - Edgerton, Samuel Y
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Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and ultimately undermined medieval Christian cosmology.

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The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe 2009, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801474804

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The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe 2009, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801447587

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