mathhombre: jareckiworld: Jean-François Niceron (1613-1646) — The Curious Perspective (book illustr
mathhombre: jareckiworld: Jean-François Niceron (1613-1646) — The Curious Perspective (book illustration “La Perspective Curieuse”, 1638) Couldn’t find the book/edition these plates were from, but did find a Bridges article about it from J L Hunt. You can find a .pdf of La Perspective Curieuse here. Also, the image in the OP was reproduced in David Wade’s Fantastic Geometry, page 255. Wade cites the drawing to Thaumaturgus Opticus, which was Niceron’s revision of La Perspective Curieuse translated into Latin, so it’s not clear to me if the drawing appeared in both versions or not. Anyway, the latter work can be viewed here, but I don’t see any way to download the entire book.The second image above is also in Wade, p. 256, but not colored. -- source link
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