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100 1 $aField, Judith Veronica.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85356235
245 10 $aPiero Della Francesca :$ba mathematician's art /$cJ.V. Field.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axi, 420 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [386]-393) and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tThe background --$g2.$tPerspective --$g3.$tPiero's early life and continuing ties --$g4.$tA sense of space --$g5.$tThe force of lines : on perspective for painting --$g6.$tOptics and illusionism --$g7.$tBut is it art? --$g8.$tFrom Piero della Francesca to Galileo Galilei --$gApp. 1.$tThe method of double false position --$gApp. 2.$tPiero della Francesca's methods of finding the height of a triangle --$gApp. 3.$tThe distance point method of perspective construction --$gApp. 4.$tMaking a square into an octagon --$gApp. 5.$tConstructing an octagon from a square and drawing the patterned pavement in Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ --$gApp. 6.$tSome examples of three-dimensional geometry from Piero della Francesca's Trattato d'abaco and Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus --$gApp. 7.$tThe prefatory letter to the latin text of Piero della Francesca's Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus --$gApp. 8.$tSome theorems and problems in Piero della Francesca's construction of the perspective image of a square-tiled pavement --$gApp. 9.$tThe ground plan and lighting of the Montefeltro Altarpiece.
520 1 $a"Piero della Francesca, one of the greatest painters of the fifteenth century, was also an accomplished mathematician. This book - the first combined study of Piero's work as a mathematician and as a painter - explores the connections between these two sides of his activity and thus enhances our understanding of both his paintings and his writings."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aPiero,$cdella Francesca,$d1416?-1492$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aArt$xMathematics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009115869
650 0 $aGeometry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054133
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/yale051/2004001164.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/yale051/2004001164.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004001164.html
852 80 $bfax$hND623 P61$iF46
852 00 $bbar$hND623.F78$iF54 2005