Author : Samuel Y. Edgerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801425738
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (257 download)
Book Synopsis The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry by : Samuel Y. Edgerton
Download or read book The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry written by Samuel Y. Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1992 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association "Edgerton's interdisciplinary study is a bold attempt to show how the perception of the world, as slowly refined by the Renaissance artists, provided the impetus behind the scientific revolution. . . . An ambitious and largely persuasive book." --Nature "Edgerton's book is learned and richly illustrated with paintings and drawings from the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and contemporaneous Chinese dynasties. . . . [His] argument is intricate and flawless." --American Historical Review