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Alternate Title(s): Perspectiva
Author: John Peckham
Publication Location: Paris
Year: 1556

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The Perspectiva of Peckham (13th century) became the established university textbook on perspective. It was the text Galileo likely used in his early studies of optics. Renaissance artists were well-versed in the classic works on perspective. For example, the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti cited an Italian translation of Ibn Al-Haytham as well as treatises by Witelo, Roger Bacon, and Peckham.

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Theme(s): Art, Mathematics, Education
Chronological Period: Medieval
Geographical Region(s): France, Italy, Europe
Resource Type: Book