Citation
Alternate Title(s): Perspectiva
Publication Location: Paris
Year: 1556
Item Location
Exhibit: An Artful Observation of the Cosmos
Section: Galileo and Perspective
Summary
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.