Perspective, ChronologyExtracted from Ralph Abraham, MS#102a, Perspsectiva.300 BC, Euclid's Optica 25 BC, Vitruvius' De architectura 140 AD, Ptolemy's Optica, and Geographia 175, Galen's De usu partium 1000, Alhazen's Perspectiva 1260, Roger Bacon's Opus Majus 1270, John Pecham's Perspectiva communis 1290, Giotto 1308, Duccio 1342, Lorenzetti 1390, Blasius' Quaestiones perspectivae 1400, first arrival of Ptolemy's Geographia in Florence 1413, Brunelleschi's demonstrations 1417, Donatello, among the earliest applications to painting 1424, return of Toscanelli to Florence 1425, Masaccio's Trinity 1435, Alberti, first text on perspective drawing 1472, Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciation 1474, Piero della Francesca, De prospectiva pingendi Cartography, Voyages of Discovery, Cartesian Geometry, Modern Math Revised 09 October 2004 |