Anlage zur Perspektive
Year of Conception: 1752
Year of Writing: 1752 (Manuskript)
Year of Publication: 1943
Subject: Perspective, Technology
Publication: ed. by Max Steck, in: J.H. Lambert, Schriften zur Perspektive, Berlin (1943) pp.161–186.(8)
Description:
First sketch on perspective, preparing Lambert's main work, the Freye Perspektive
(1759). In particular, Lambert describes instruments (the
Perspektograph, Proportionalzirkel) useful in mechanizing perspective
drawings and starts an algebraic treatment of problems in perspective.
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