Die freie Perspektive oder Anweisung jeden perspektivischen Aufriß von freyen Stücken und ohne Grundriß zu verfertigen
Year of Conception: November 1756
Year of Writing: February-March 1759
Year of Publication: 1759
Subject: Perspective
Publication: Die freie Perspektive oder Anweisung jeden perspektivischen Aufriß von freyen Stücken und ohne Grundriß zu verfertigen. Zürich.
French Original appeared simultaneously as: La perspective affranchie de l'embarras du plan géométral. Zürich.(E-lib.ch)
Publication 2: A second edition, with additional chapters, appeared in 1774, two volumes. (The additions were written September 1772)(E-lib.ch)
Translations: Traduction française annotée de Notes et additions à la perspective affranchie de l’embarras du plan géométral de Jean-Henri Lambert, trad. par J. Peiffer, en annexe à Roger Laurent, La place de J.-H. Lambert (1728-1777) dans l’histoire de la perspective, CEDIC/Nathan, Paris 1987, vi-310p.(CultureMATH)
Description:
Lambert's treatise on the art of perspective. It is especially shown how instruments and rules may turn the art of perspective into a mechanical art or even into a science.
The second edition added a history of perspective and some new constructions and rules.
Reviews:
GGA 1760, 1036-1039(4)
; 2nd edition: ADB 1774, 138-140(6) ; GGA 1774, 1322-1323(4)